Summit's Antibiotic Spares The Microbiome And Spoils The C Diff Rods
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Summit Therapeutics' novel narrow-spectrum antibiotic ridinilazole (SMT19969) is highly effective in reducing recurrence in Clostridium difficile infections (CDI), and could address a major unmet need in the treatment of the disease, suggest Phase II data due to be presented at the ECCMID meeting in Amsterdam in April.
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