-
Fidaxomicin, sold
under the
brand name
Dificid (by Merck)
among others, is the
first member of a
class of
narrow spectrum macrocyclic antibiotic drugs...
- 20% of
those infected. The
antibiotics metronidazole, vancomycin, or
fidaxomicin, will cure the infection.
Retesting after treatment, as long as the symptoms...
- B,
Emery J,
Louie T (November 2010). "A new
macrocyclic antibiotic,
fidaxomicin (OPT-80),
causes less
alteration to the
bowel microbiota of Clostridium...
-
species of bacteria.
Examples of narrow-spectrum
antibiotics include fidaxomicin and sarecycline. Narrow-spectrum
antibiotic allow to kill or inhibit...
- "147 - Nitroimidazoles, Metronidazole,
Ornidazole and Tinidazole; and
Fidaxomicin", in
Cohen J,
Powderly WG, Opal SM (eds.),
Infectious Diseases (Fourth ed...
-
treated with oral
fidaxomicin, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic. The
usual dosage is 200 mg
twice a day
orally for 10 days.
Fidaxomicin is
considered to be...
- of mild-to-moderate
Clostridioides difficile colitis if
vancomycin or
fidaxomicin is unavailable.
Metronidazole is
available orally (by mouth), as a cream...
- 2009 – telavancin, the
first lipoglycopeptide 2010 –
ceftaroline 2011 –
fidaxomicin 2012 –
bedaquiline 2013 –
telavancin 2014 –
tedizolid 2014 – dalbavancin...
- tigecycline),
oxazolidinones (such as linezolid), and
lipiarmycins (such as
fidaxomicin). With
advances in
medicinal chemistry, most
modern antibacterials are...
- lipiarmycin,
clostomicin B1) is
commercially available,
under the
generic name
fidaxomicin.[citation needed] Hochlowski, J. E.; Swanson, S. J.; Ranfranz, L. M.;...
