Treatment of disease associated with the use of antibiotics
AssigneeOptimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
InventorsYoue-Kong Shue, Farah Kondori Babakhani, Franklin W. Okumu, Pamela Suzanne Sears, Starr Louise Miller-Shangle, Robert Brian Walsh
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Abstract
This invention relates to the treatment or prevention of diseases associated with the use of antibiotics or cancer chemotherapies or antiviral therapies, such as colitis, pseudomembranous colitis, antibiotic associated diarrhea and infections due to C. difficile, C. perfringens, Staphylococcus species including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Enterococcus including vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) with Compound I.
Claims18
1-57. (canceled)
A method of inhibiting proliferation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a patient suffering from antibiotic associated diarrhea comprising administering to said patient an amount of an antibiotic mixture effective to inhibit VRE proliferation comprised of greater than 90% tiacumicin B having the following structure
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