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Fosfomycin Who would have thought that a drug that has been around since 1969 [2] could become eligible for QIDP status in 2015? Well, Zavante Therapeutics recently garnered the coveted QIDP designation for fosfomycin IV. This formulation has been available in Europe for a quite some time but not in the Continue reading A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin
Despite all the concern about the emergence of CRE pathogens worldwide, it is quite difficult to obtain hard quantitative, prospectively collected incidence figures. A recent article by Robert [1] and colleagues provides useful data from France. Using a practical definition of carbapenem-non-susceptibility (ertapenem > 0.5, imipenem, meropenem > 2, doripenem > 1), Continue reading CRE Surveillance Data from France
Solomkin et al. conclude that the efficacy and safety of eravacycline compares favorably to the control drug, ertapenem.[1] This top-level assessment is made with the usual caveats (insufficient statistical power, small sample size), but a few points deserve comment. Eravacycline is a fluorocycline; as a tetracycline derivative it follows into Continue reading Some Thoughts about Eravacycline Based on the Phase 2 cIAI Study