Trials and Tribulations of an ID Fellow

(I'm not providing you with medical advice. Clinical correlation and professional interpretation required)

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

C. difficile


Previous blog here.

Some more "novel stuff":
  • Case reports (poor quality really) of the use of tigecycline for the treatment of severe CDAD.
  • Article discussing the use of the non-absorbable rifamycin, rifaximin, for the treatment of CDAD -- AKA the "rifaximin chaser"
Posted by tcl at 8:25 AM

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