Cattle and Pigs and Chickens, Oh Yeah!

When the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) Final Rule was announced earlier this month by FDA, the accompanying press release called it a ‘major step towards judicious antibiotic use’ in veterinary medicine [1]. There are several elements which look good, at least on paper: As prescribers of any and all antibiotics it Continue reading Cattle and Pigs and Chickens, Oh Yeah!

A GO / NO GO decision:  Delafloxacin Stumbles in Gonorrhea Study

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

Nominating Thiamphenicol for IDSA’s 10 x ’20 Campaign

If you were developing a new antibiotic with a novel MoA, one that covers most GPC, most GNR, most anaerobes and atypicals, including many MDR pathogens like MRSA, enterococci (both E. faecalis and E. faecium), and one that has also activity against rickettsiae and bioterrorism agents, you would consider it a Continue reading Nominating Thiamphenicol for IDSA’s 10 x ’20 Campaign