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SUBMITTER: Koulenti D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6843636 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Koulenti Despoina D Xu Elena E Yin Sum Mok Isaac I Song Andrew A Karageorgopoulos Drosos E DE Armaganidis Apostolos A Lipman Jeffrey J Tsiodras Sotirios S
Microorganisms 20190924 10
On 18 August 2019, an article was published in <i>Microorganisms</i> 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. ...[more]