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Tigecycline is an glycylcycline antibiotic developed and marketed by Wyeth under the brand name Tygacil. It was given a U.S. Food and Drug Administration fast-track approval and was approved on June 17, 2005. It was developed in response to the growing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. This antibiotic is the first clinically-available drug in a new class of antibiotics called the glycylcyclines. It is structurally...


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  • Fournier Gangreen / Necrotizing Fasciitis.. - 4 replies

    antibiotic left to go! Tigecycline and it work and after multitude of surgery's to remove you infected skin Hello To All I am new to all of this and this board so I do not know if...

    Nov 26, 2006

  • ABX 'cheat sheet'? - 2 replies

    <18 yr old), tetracyclines, tigecycline, nitrofurantoin (not < 1 mo), bactrim... I remember a post a couple months back a post that had an ABX "cheat sheet" w/ basic food i...

    Oct 25, 2008

  • 9 weeks of I.V. antibiotics and no improvement - 8 replies

    something else. I've been reading some interesting things about IV Tigecycline. It'... Tomorrow will mark the start of week 9 of my I.V. antibiotic treatment. There has been no improvement...

    Jul 08, 2008

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