Clostridium Perfringens Treatment. ... If you undergo septic shock due to gas gangrene, antibiotics like penicillin G and metronidazole help overcome the condition.

Your treatment partly depends on what gave you food poisoning and how sick you are. Some of the causes, from most to least common in the United States, are: Norovirus : You can get this virus from ...

Antibiotics may not be the only risk factor associated with community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection, indicating that other undefined causes of the potentially life-threatening infection ...

Introduction. Clostridium difficile was first recognized as the cause of antibiotic-associated colitis in 1977. [] For the following 10 years or so it remained a relatively uncommon infection, but ...

He added "In a world where there are few treatment options, we are desperate for new antibiotics to fight intractable infections". The company expects to start Phase I clinical trials in 2017. Journal ...

Clostridium difficile kills 13,000 people each year in the US alone. A new antibiotic tested in mice works better than our first-line treatments against infection – and prevents reinfection too ...

Box 1. Guidelines for current treatment of Clostridium difficile infection. Antiperistaltic agents and opiates should be avoided. In general, strive to use antibiotics covering a spectrum no ...