Conditions: Clostridium Difficile Infection
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 34
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to compare number of vegetative cells and spores in stool over time for fidaxomicin or vancomycin in patients diagnosed with their first episode of C. difficile infection.

Detailed description:
The purpose of this study is to:

* Compare quantitatively the number of vegetative cells in stool over time for fidaxomicin or vancomycin in patients diagnosed with their first episode of C. difficile infection
* Compare quantitatively the number of spores in the stool over time for patients presenting with their first episode of C. difficile infection having been treated with either fidaxomicin or vancomycin.

Arms:
arm 1: Fidaxomicin 200mg by mouth every 12 hours for 10 days arm 2: Vancomycin 125mg by mouth every 6 hours for 10 days

Interventions: intervention 1: Vancomycin intervention 2: Fidaxomicin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Vancomycin 125mg by mouth every 6 hours for 10 days intervention 2: Fidaxomicin 200mg by mouth every 12 hours for 10 days

Protocol document: