Eravacycline for the treatment of patients with bacterial infections.

Abstract

Eravacycline is a novel, broad-spectrum, synthetic fluorocycline antibiotic for the treatment of complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI) and complicated intra-abdominal infection (cIAI) due to multidrug-resistant Gram-positive, Gram-negative and anaerobic bacteria that has demonstrated superior potency to that of currently marketed antibiotics. Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals has submitted a new drug application for eravacycline for the treatment of cIAI due to drug-resistant bacteria. In 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted eravacycline qualified infectious disease product designation for the treatment of cUTI and cIAI.