Home » Tygacil » Page 3

Tag Archives: Tygacil

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

Posted on by — 1 Comment ↓

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) was mentioned quite often during ICAAC 2015, in sessions and Continue reading After ICAAC: Some More Thoughts on Eravacycline in cUTI and IGNITE-2→

Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion

Posted on by — No Comments ↓

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 explanation which will require some very expert investigation. There is Continue reading Mme Erava and The Mysterious Case of Auto-Combustion→

A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin

Posted on by — No Comments ↓

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→