VIDEO: Current treatment options for C. difficile infection

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Currently, to treat C. diff infection, the only options we still have are antibiotics. And so antibiotics for C. diff, the mainstay right now, based on both the IDSA and ACG guidelines are either vancomycin or fidaxomicin for a first episode of C. diff. Now, in a recent update, the Infectious Disease Society did state that they recommended fidaxomicin preferentially over vancomycin. In the American College of Gastro guidelines, they are both felt to be equivalent, essentially, for use of treating primary C. diff, regardless of severity, so both primary non-severe and primary severe.