Audio Journal of Infectious Disease: Reporting from the 2006 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 27 – 30, San Francisco

Audio Journal of Infectious Disease: Reporting from the 2006 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 27 – 30, San Francisco

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28 September 2006

Roger Baxter Jaap van Dissel Which Antibiotics Pose Greatest Risk of C. difficile infection? REFERENCE: Abstract K-0349 Roger Baxter, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland In the presence of certain antibiotics,

Roger Baxter

Roger Baxter

Jaap van Dissel

Jaap van Dissel

Which Antibiotics Pose Greatest Risk of C. difficile infection?

REFERENCE: Abstract K-0349Roger Baxter, Kaiser Permanente, OaklandIn the presence of certain antibiotics, it seems Clostridium difficile can flourish.Roger Baxter, from Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, presented data suggesting that imipenem and clindamycin are among the drugs that give patients a greater risk of C. difficile infection.

Prevent C. difficile relapse – with a Protein Concentrate from Cows

REFERENCE: Abstract K-0352Jaap van Dissel, Leiden University Medical CenterClostridium difficile relapse is sometimes difficult to prevent with antibiotics – so could a rather different approach, involving a protein powder obtained from immunised cows, give a greater and more durable benefit?Jaap van Disselof the Leiden University Medical Center had the details at ICAAC.