Antibiotic treatment for travellers' diarrhoea

Travellers' diarrhoea: slow but steady progress.

Antibiotic treatment for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea in adults.

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is recognized as a frequent cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and colitis. This review is an update of a previously published Cochrane review. OBJECTIVES The aim of this review is to investigate the efficacy and safety of antibiotic therapy for C. difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD), or C. difficile infection (CDI), being synonymous ter...

Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care

BACKGROUND Travellers' diarrhoea is the most common health problem among international travellers and much of the burden falls on general practitioners. We assessed whether sentinel surveillance based in primary care could be used to monitor changes in the epidemiology of travellers' diarrhoea. METHODS A sentinel surveillance scheme of 30 volunteer general practices distributed throughout Wal...

Evidence for antibiotic induced Clostridium perfringens diarrhoea.

Clostridium difficile is a well documented cause of antibiotic associated diarrhoea in hospitalised patients, but may account for only approximately 20% of all cases. This leader reviews the current knowledge and understanding of the pathogenesis, epidemiology, and diagnosis of non-food borne Clostridium perfringens diarrhoea. Although enterotoxigenic C perfringens has been implicated in some C...

Evidence for antibiotic induced Clostridium perfringens diarrhoea

Clostridium diYcile is a well documented cause of antibiotic associated diarrhoea in hospitalised patients, but may account for only approximately 20% of all cases. This leader reviews the current knowledge and understanding of the pathogenesis, epidemiology, and diagnosis of non-food borne Clostridium perfringens diarrhoea. Although enterotoxigenic C perfringens has been implicated in some C d...