Abstract：
:Clostridium difficile disease is the major, known cause of nosocomial diarrhea and is an emerging cause of community-associated diarrhea. Recent outbreaks due to a strain of apparent increased virulence, BI/NAP1, and recognition of increasing metronidazole treatment failures as well as the morbidity associated with recurrent C. difficile disease have begun to spur studies to develop new therapies for C. difficile disease. Nitazoxanide, tolevamer, ramoplanin, and rifaximin are key agents being evaluated as new therapies for C. difficile disease. For now, vancomycin or metronidazole combined with discontinuation of antibiotics, when feasible, and expert infection control remain the mainstays of C. difficile disease management.
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Curr Opin Pharmacoljournal_title
Current opinion in pharmacologyauthors
Balagopal A,Sears CLdoi
10.1016/j.coph.2007.05.007subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-10-01 00:00:00pages
455-8issue
5eissn
1471-4892issn
1471-4973pii
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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abstract：:The bioavailability of drugs with an absorption window in the upper small intestine is generally limited with conventional pharmaceutical dosage forms. The residence time of such systems and, thus, of their drug release into the stomach and upper intestine is often short. To overcome this restriction and to increase t...
journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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abstract：:The second messenger, cAMP, is one of the most important regulatory signals for control of steroidogenesis. This review focuses on current knowledge about regulation of cyclic nucleotides by phosphodiesterases (PDEs) in steroidogenic tissues. The first PDE known to directly regulate steroidogenesis was PDE2, the cGMP-...
journal_title：Current opinion in pharmacology
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