Are there any antibiotics that can be used to treat clostridium difficile infection?

Flagyl or Vancomycin: C. Difficile colitis almost always occurs when another oral antibiotic, used to treat a different infection, wipes out normal gut bacteria. Patients who develop c.Diff colitis should stop taking that initial oral antibiotic. Treatment is usually with Metronidazole (flagyl) or vancomycin (vancocin). For severe cases, doctors may prefer vanco. Newer drugs are available if this treatment fails.

Yes&alternatively...: Metronidazole or vancomycin by mouth. The newer drug (though very expensive) is fidaxomicin. However, in severe cases, the infected colon must be removed by surgery. Emerging as an alternative method to antibiotics is stool transplantation where stool from a close partner can be used to repopulate the normal flora of a c difficile infected patient (gough et al. Clin infect dis. 2011;53:994-1002).

Yes: Flagyl, vancomycin or fidaxomicin are the antibiotics usually used to kill c. Difficile overgrowth in the colonic lumen.