Probiotics show promise in mitigating antibiotic-induced gut microbiota disruption, however, further research is needed to ...

Antibiotics are important clinical tools for treating bacterial infections, yet we recognize that an important side effect of ...

Her local primary doctor was informed that clarithromycin was the probable cause of the colitis and that the use of this antibiotic should be safely avoided in this patient. The use of clarithromycin ...

Design Oral antibiotics were given to wildtype and induced mutant mouse strains, and the effects on bacterial translocation, inflammatory responses and the susceptibility to colitis were evaluated.

It is the most common cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea and the etiologic agent of pseudomembranous colitis with about 453,000 cases and 29,000 deaths yearly in the U.S. as reported ...

In cases when an infection has caused fulminant colitis, antibiotics can help target specific infections, such as C. difficile. While in the hospital, a person may also need IV therapy to ...

This trial, funded by Crohn’s & Colitis UK, showed that a combination of antibiotics (ciprofloxacin and doxycycline) with the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, induced remission in a small proportion ...

The researchers also looked at the classes of antibiotics used, and when they had been prescribed in relation to the diagnosis. Overall, 10,773 new cases of ulcerative colitis and 3,825 new cases of ...

Frequent use of antibiotics may heighten the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), i.e. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, among those aged over 40, suggests research published online ...

Four patients with severe disease were cured after receiving the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline. When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment with ...

Colitis extending beyond 40 cm from the anal verge ... Contraindication to oral bowel preparation. Allergy to study antibiotics. Age less than 18. Patient is within a vulnerable group, defined as ...