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Study findings from St. Antonius Hospital provide new insights into clinical infectious diseases

Published in Hospital Business Week, July 19th, 2009

According to a study from Netherlands, "Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become more refractory to standard therapy. We describe 4 patients with severe refractory CDI who were successfully treated with tigecycline."

"Symptoms improved within 1 week. No relapses were observed," wrote B.L. Herpers and colleagues, St. Antonius Hospital.

The researchers concluded: "This favorable outcome suggests that tigecycline might be a useful alternative for treating severe refractory CDI."

Herpers and colleagues published the results of their research in Clinical Infectious Diseases (Intravenous Tigecycline as Adjunctive or...

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