Table 2.

Intake of antibiotics in Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea (CDAD) patients

	CDAD onset in community (n = 38)	CDAD onset as inpatient (n = 98)
Cephalosporin and/or broad spectrum penicillins prior to onset of diarrhoea	31 (81.6%)	83 (84.7%)
Metronidazole in addition to cephalosporin and/or broad spectrum penicillins	12 (31.2%)	23 (23.5%)
Patients not on cephalosporins or penicillins	7 (18.4%)	15 (15.3%)
Metronidazole	1 (2.6%)	1 (1%)
Ciprofloxacin	1 (2.6%)	2 (2%)
Ciprofloxacin (with metronidazole)	1 (2.6%)	3 (3.1%)
Erythromycin (with metronidazole)	1 (2.6%)	3 (3.1%)
Trimethoprim (1 with ciprofloxacin)	0 (0%)	3 (3.1%)
Erythromycin+ciprofloxacin (with metronidazole)	0 (0%)	1 (1%)
No antibiotics	3 (7.9%)	2 (2%)
Patients on <3 antibiotics	25 (65.8%)	75 (53.1%)
Patients on ⩾3 antibiotics	13 (34.2%)	46 (46.9%)

Values are number (%).