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Status:
US Approved Rx (2024)
First approved in 2011

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



Fidaxomicin (trade names Dificid, Dificlir in Europe) is the first in a new class of narrow spectrum macrocyclic antibiotic drugs indicated for treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea. Lipiarmycin (fidaxomicin), a metabolite of Actinop...