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Summit's Antibiotic Spares The Microbiome And Spoils The C Diff Rods

 
• By Alexandra Shimmings

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.

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.

The data from the 100-patient CoDIFy study exceeded the expectations of the company and have excited experts in the field,...

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