• Microorganisms · Sep 2019

    Lefamulin. Comment on: "Novel Antibiotics for Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Positive Microorganisms. Microorganisms, 2019, 7, 270".

    • Despoina Koulenti, Elena Xu, Isaac Yin Sum Mok, Andrew Song, Drosos E Karageorgopoulos, Apostolos Armaganidis, Jeffrey Lipman, and Sotirios Tsiodras.
    • UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. d.koulenti@uq.edu.au.
    • Microorganisms. 2019 Sep 24; 7 (10).

    AbstractOn 18 August 2019, an article was published in Microorganisms presenting novel, approved anti-Gram-positive antibiotics. On 19 August 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of lefamulin, a representative of a new class of antibiotics, the pleuromutilins, for the treatment of adult community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. We present a brief description of lefamulin.

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