Tetraphase's Broad Spectrum Antibiotic Xerava Priced To Move

 
• By Emily Hayes

Company presents game plan for targeting 1,900 high-prescribing hospitals in US in a launch kicking off in the second half of October.

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TetraPhase Pharmaceuticals Inc. is set to launch Xerava – a broad spectrum antibiotic just approved by the US FDA for complicated intra-abdominal infections – at the competitive price of $175-to-$250 a day in a bid to smooth the drug's path on to formularies.

Xerava (eravacycline) is given intravenously as a one-hour infusion, typically for a course of four to 14 days, to high-risk...

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