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There are few robust in vitro data of the effects of antibiotic treatment of CDI in a gut reflective setting. METHODS: We used clindamycin to induce high-level toxin production by two epidemic C. difficile PCR ribotypes in a human gut model of CDI. Vancomycin was instilled into the models to achieve in vivo faecal concentrations. C. difficile populations and toxin titres, and gut bacterial populations and vancomycin levels were monitored before, during and after vancomycin instillation. RESULTS: Clindamycin treatment elicited C. difficile germination and high-level cytotoxin production. Vancomycin reduced total viable counts and cytotoxin titres of both C. difficile PCR ribotypes, with no evidence of recurrence before the model runs were ended. C. difficile PCR ribotype 027 populations exhibited greater germination capacity than did PCR ribotype 106. Vancomycin was more rapidly effective against the greater numbers of PCR ribotype 027 vegetative forms. Vancomycin showed no activity against C. difficile spores. CONCLUSIONS: Bacteriological response to vancomycin varies between strains causing CDI, possibly correlating with the extent of germination capacity. Vancomycin effectively reduced vegetative forms and cytotoxin titres of both of the epidemic C. difficile PCR ribotypes evaluated, but showed no anti-spore activity. 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