A study has linked initial vancomycin monotherapy to higher rates of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a report by Internal Medicine News. The ...

An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, called rifaximin, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable form ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Daptomycin costs more to acquire, but the overall treatment cost is less than with vancomycin. Daptomycin ...

The dark side of antibiotics; A key drug used to treat liver failure unexpectedly causes cross-resistance to the critical antibiotic daptomycin. An international team of researchers has found that an ...

Fecal microbiota transplant was noninferior to vancomycin as the initial treatment for C. diff in a randomized, open-label trial. Transplant showed slightly higher cure rates without recurrence and ...