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You may be aware of recent food product recalls associated with food poisoning due to listeria contamination: ready-to-eat products, deli meats, sandwiches, protein snacks, chicken, turkey, cheese and dairy products. The list is long as Listeria is ubiquitous in the Continue reading LISTERIA: Food Recalls, Outbreaks, and Resistance
This December, Achaogen released much data on 2 plazomicin trials[1]: the pivotal EPIC study comparing plazomicin / levofloxacin with meropenem / levofloxacin in cUTI is the one we want to look at today because it is interpretable, while the other trial Continue reading All Smiles at the Press Conference: Plazo+Levo Delivers
Meropenem stands out as an antibiotic to be used first in ESBL and MDR infections, given its efficacy profile and safety record (see earlier blog). It also would seem to be appropriate to use relatively high doses or prolonged infusion Continue reading To Kill A Mocking Bug – of the CRKP or CRAB Variety
There is much interest in inhaled antibiotics these days. Prima facie, the logic for this approach is compelling: Getting the antibiotic (and a lot of it) directly to the site of infection, while avoiding systemic toxicity, sounds like optimized efficacy Continue reading Antibiotic Inhalers Galore (Part 1): More Combinations and Permutations than a Rubik’s Cube
VABP is clearly the main indication to be pursued by a drug like POL7080. Here is the question: How to conduct a study demonstrating efficacy for a drug which only has a single-organism spectrum? Which is actually no spectrum at all. Existing Continue reading Polyphor POL7080 And The Journey to The Land of Pyocyanea (Part 3)