Treatment involves suppressing the toxin-producing organisms with antibiotics such as penicillin G or metronidazole. About half of seriously ill patients require surgery for perforation, persistent intestinal obstruction, or failure to respond to the antibiotics. An investigational toxoid vaccine has been used successfully in some developing countries but is not available outside of research.
Clostridial necrotizing enteritis
Intestinal spirochetosis
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Staphylococcal enteritis
Wilderness-acquired diarrhea
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
Diversion colitis
Cord colitis syndrome