The short-lived success of teicoplanin as an alternative to vancomycin motivated pharmacologic investigators to develop different antibiotic approaches. The failure of glycopeptide antibiotics led ...

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has announced that its USA-based subsidiary, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA (Glenmark), has launched Vancomycin Hydrochloride for Injection USP.

To understand how the ancestor of today's glycopeptide antibiotics—such as vancomycin, ristomycin and teicoplanin—might have looked like, the researchers used a combination of bioinformatics ...

The antibiotics market generated sales of US ... Theravance/Astellas), a glycopeptide approved in 2009; retapamulin (Altabax; GlaxoSmithKline), a pleuromutilin approved in 2008; and tigecycline ...

Vancomycin (Vancocin ®), a glycopeptide antibiotic, is the drug of choice. The oral form of vancomycin is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and not advised for critical illness.

X. Li, A. Volkov, K. Szalewicz, and P. Coppens, "Interactions between glycopeptide antibiotics and substrates in complexes determined by X-ray crystalography: application of a theoretical databank of ...