OBJECTIVE Clostridium difficile is a major cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhoea. Treatment of C. difficile infection (CDI) depends on disease severity. A combination of vancomycin and metronidazole is often recommended in severe cases. The aim of this study was to examine, in a murine model of CDI, if mice treated with a combination of vancomycin and metronidazole had a better clinical outc...

OBJECTIVES Antimicrobial treatment for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has typically been metronidazole, although reports have questioned the efficacy of this option. We screened recently isolated C. difficile (2005-06) for susceptibility to metronidazole and compared results for historic isolates (1995-2001). METHODS C. difficile ribotypes 001 (n = 86), 106 (n = 81) and 027 (n = 48) an...

BACKGROUND Rosacea is a chronic skin disease that requires long-term therapy. Oral antibiotics and topical metronidazole successfully treat rosacea. Because long-term use of systemic antibiotics carries risks for systemic complications and adverse reactions, topical treatments are preferred. OBJECTIVE To determine if the use of topical metronidazole gel (Metrogel) could prevent relapse of mod...

KEY WORDS bacterial vaginosis; metronidazole etronidazole vaginal gel 0.75% (MetroGel-Vaginal(R), 3M Pharmaceuticals, St. Paul, MN) is the intravaginal form of the antibacterial, anti-protozoal agent metronidazole. MetroGel-Vaginal is indicated for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis (BV) and has been shown to be as effective as the oral form of metronidazole for this condition. Recently , a s...

Susceptibility of 64 clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to metronidazole was determined by the agar dilution technique using Mueller-Hinton and chocolate agar media. All isolates were resistant to metronidazole at 12.5 mug/ml in either medium. This lack of activity of metronidazole against N. gonorrhoeae would suggest that the ability to recover N. gonorrhoeae in patients being treated ...

AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of metronidazole in combination with corticosteroids in enema and mesalazine (5-aminosalicylic acid) in comparison with the same protocol without metronidazole in the treatment of chronic radiation proctitis. METHODS Sixty patients with rectal bleeding and diarrhea were randomly divided into two groups. Patients in the first group were treated with metronidaz...

PURPOSE Neurotoxicities resulting from various medications are under diagnosed; Metronidazole-induced encephalopathy is one of them. Here we present two patients with a history of metronidazole use and discuss neuroimaging findings. CASE REPORT We report two patients suffering from acute neurological symptoms associated with metronidazole use. A 70-year-old female who received a cumulative do...