Continuing diarrhoea after ten days of oral metronidazole or oral vancomycin for presumed, hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile colitis in elderly hospital patients

J Hosp Infect. 2010 Apr;74(4):403-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.11.002. Epub 2010 Feb 12.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Albumins / analysis
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • C-Reactive Protein / analysis
  • Clostridioides difficile / isolation & purification*
  • Clostridium Infections / drug therapy
  • Clostridium Infections / microbiology*
  • Creatinine / blood
  • Cross Infection / drug therapy
  • Cross Infection / microbiology*
  • Diarrhea / drug therapy
  • Diarrhea / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Leukocyte Count
  • Male
  • Metronidazole / therapeutic use*
  • Time Factors
  • United Kingdom
  • Vancomycin / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Albumins
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Metronidazole
  • Vancomycin
  • C-Reactive Protein
  • Creatinine