The study has demonstrated that rifaximin usage is driving resistance to daptomycin, one of the last effective antibiotics against VRE infections. Published today in Nature, the study was led by ...

[6] An aminoglycoside can also be added in cases of severe clinical symptoms. Because CNS are isolated in the majority of CRBSIs, vancomycin can be considered part of the initial empiric regimen.

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI ... a clinical cure rate of 88.2% compared with 85.8% for vancomycin, faster resolution of symptoms at 60 h (67.6% for fidaxomicin vs 61.5% for vancomycin ...