Lean Toward Oral Vancomycin as First-Line Treatment for C. diff in Adults

April 2018

You'll see a shift in how Clostridium difficile is treated in adults...due to new guidelines from Infect Dis Soc of America (IDSA).

Oral metronidazole has been the standard for treating C. diff...with oral vancomycin often saved for severe or recurrent infections.

But about one in 4 patients relapse after a first C. diff episode.

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