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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
In this day and age, few truly broad spectrum antibiotics are in development, although this does not hold true for narrow-spectrums. Just think of all the MRSA drugs (quinolones, FabI inhibitors), the pseudomonas drugs (NCEs and monoclonals) or some narrow spectrum drugs that will need to be tested in MDR Continue reading Artie’s Law: Avoid Bad Advice and Don’t Follow ‘Mission Impossible’ Advice
The treatment history of N. gonorrhoeae makes for fascinating reading. This organism has always been able to keep the upper hand in the war of bug versus drug. Once susceptible to sulfa drugs, to penicillin, tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones, it sequentially become resistant in the matter of a decade to every Continue reading A GO / NO GO decision: Delafloxacin Stumbles in Gonorrhea Study