Optimer Gets FDA Approval For C. Difficile Drug; Worse Than MRSA?

A new drug produced by Optimer called Dificid, is the first new medicine in 25 years approved to reduce diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff), a bacterium that some studies suggests may have surpassed the better known MRSA as the leading hospital acquired infection. Dificid is the first drug Optimer has had approved in its history. Problems usually start when people are treated with antibiotics for some other infection. That can kill off many of the harmless bacteria in the intestines, allowing C...

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