Researchers found that vancomycin is no longer superior to metronidazole; the change coincided with the emergence of a hypervirulent strain of C. difficile. Metronidazole and vancomycin have been ...

Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester have found C. diff is able to evolve high levels of vancomycin resistance very quickly - in less than two months the ...

T he antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C.

Unfortunately, only three antibiotics are available to treat C. difficile infections. The drug of choice for most patients is vancomycin, but in about one-third of patients, their infection ...

Vancomycin 265/309 (85.8% ... results of cultures and/or susceptibility tests become known. Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe ...