FDA grants ‘breakthrough’ status to antibiotic alternative as ContraFect rushes to join fight against superbug

Amber Tong

An experimental drug that promises to be the first anti-infective agent to prove superior to vancomycin — an antibiotic approved in 1958 — has notched the FDA …

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