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

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.