After ICAAC: Some More Thoughts on Eravacycline in cUTI and IGNITE-2

When a well-designed pivotal Phase 3 trial fails to show NI, it demands an explanation.  While awaiting the company’s analysis of the data, many possible explanations are bandied about.  So it was not surprising that the eravacycline cUTI study (IGNITE-2) Continue reading After ICAAC: Some More Thoughts on Eravacycline in cUTI and IGNITE-2

Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion

SH: My dear Watson, did you read the news of the astonishing debacle that befell Mme Erava and made the headlines, creating anxiety of hitherto unknown proportions in Tetraland? Dr.W.: A disaster of epic proportions, for sure, and a mystery, an Continue reading Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion

Learning from Set-Backs: The Frustrating Search for a Staphylococcal Vaccine

Several reasons have been proposed as explanations why so many S. aureus vaccines have failed in clinical trials.  Clearly, the organism has a battery of virulence factors which may require a multipronged approach and neutralizing just a single mechanism with a specific mAb Continue reading Learning from Set-Backs: The Frustrating Search for a Staphylococcal Vaccine