Antibiotic Firms Push Ahead With cSSSI Trials, Despite Lack Of FDA Guidance
Executive Summary
Antibiotic developers with unpartnered compounds are forging ahead with late-stage trials for complicated skin and skin structure infections, or cSSSI, even though they are still awaiting FDA's formal guidance on drug development in this area
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