Clostridium difficile Infection and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Review

Figure 1

Treatment failure rates (%) of metronidazole in C. difficle infection: The rate of treatment failure with metronidazole has increased over the last 2 decades. Metronidazole treatment failure rates (%) however have increased the most after 2000 with the emergence of hypervirulent NAP1/B1/027 strain [66, 67, 69, 70, 78].