Changes Clinical Practice: Tigecycline should not be used as monotherapy in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). I found this article very important because it shows that tigecycline ...

Objective: To review the literature on tigecycline, a novel antibiotic. Data Sources: References were identified through MEDLINE (1966-February 2007) and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts ...

Long-term and excessive use of antibiotics has caused the spread of antibiotic resistance. The time- and cost-consuming process of new antibiotic development results in the much slower emergence of ...

Review the side-effects of Tigecycline as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication. In majority of the ...

Richard Wenzel and his colleagues from United Kingdom have found a new antibiotic tigecycline which belongs to the family of new generation of Tetracycline known as Glycycline Richard Wenzel and his ...

Tigecycline has become a critical last-resort antibiotic against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, yet resistance to this agent is rising globally. The predominant mechanisms involve ...

A new study suggests that tigecycline, the first member of a new class of antibiotics, shows significant antimalarial activity on its own and may also be effective against multi drug-resistant malaria ...

pharmaceuticals company Wyeth presented a range of clinical data at the 44th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in October, including Phase III data from a ...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today the immediate availability in the United States of Tigecycline for Injection, USP. Fresenius Kabi Tigecycline for Injection is ...

Tygacil (tigecycline), a new, expanded broad-spectrum IV antibiotic for the treatment of a wide range of infections including those caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria such as ...