VANCOCIN® capsules

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) causes watery or mucousy diarrhea, lower abdominal pain and systemic symptoms such as fever, anorexia, nausea and malaise when mildly symptomatic, and life-threatening toxic megacolon when severe.
While metronidazole has been the first-line therapy against CDI, recent clinical studies have shown that vancomycin is clinically superior to metronidazole for the treatment of severe CDI. Treatment with vancomycin resulted in 97% cure rate vs. 76% in metronidazole-treated group...
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