Postantibiotic Effect of Fidaxomicin and Its Major Metabolite, OP-1118, against Clostridium difficile
2011
Fidaxomicin (FDX), a narrow-spectrum antibiotic recently shown to be superior to vancomycin in providing sustained clinical response to Clostridium difficile infection, was investigated along with its major metabolite, OP-1118, with regard to their postantibiotic effects (PAE). FDX was found to have a prolonged PAE (10 h versus ATCC strains and 5.5 h versus a clinical isolate), and OP-1118's PAE was longer than that of the standard comparator, vancomycin (3 versus 0 to 1.5 h, respectively).
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