ReviewDrugs2008
Tigecycline: in community-acquired pneumonia.
Review in Drugs, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Switch therapy in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia: tigecycline vs. levofloxacin.BMC infectious diseases · 2012Trial
- Design and evaluation of a bifunctional fusion polypeptide for targeted delivery of tigecycline against drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Evaluating tigecycline dosing for hospital-acquired pneumonia patients: insights from physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling of lung exposure.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Tigecycline Utilization and Trends in Antibacterial Resistance from 2018 to 2021 in a Comprehensive Teaching Hospital in China.Infection and drug resistance · 2023Article
- Clinical Manifestations and Risk Factors of Tigecycline-Associated Thrombocytopenia.Infection and drug resistance · 2023Article
- Hypofibrinogenemia induced by high-dose tigecycline-case report and review of literature.Medicine · 2020Review
- Review
- Progress in the discovery of treatments for C. difficile infection: A clinical and medicinal chemistry review.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2014Review
- Clostridium difficile infection: update on emerging antibiotic treatment options and antibiotic resistance.Expert review of anti-infective therapy · 2010Review
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Tigecycline is a first-in-class glycylcycline, broad-spectrum, intravenous antibacterial developed to overcome the two major mechanisms of tetracycline resistance (ribosomal protection and efflux). The drug has been in use since 2005 for complicated intra-abdominal infections, and complicated skin and soft tissue structure infections, but is currently being assessed in the US for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults. In vitro, tigecycline had good activity against a range of Gram-positive, Gram-negative and atypical community-acquired respiratory tract pathogens implicated in CAP. Compared with other antibacterials, tigecycline has a prolonged post-antibiotic effect against key bacteria and a long serum elimination half-life in humans. The drug effectively penetrates lung tissue. The combined results of two well designed, phase III studies demonstrated that tigecycline 100 mg initially, followed by 50 mg every 12 hours for 7-14 days was not inferior to recommended dosages of levofloxacin in the treatment of hospitalized patients with CAP. Clinical cure rates were 89.7% versus 86.3% in the clinically evaluable population and 81.0% versus 79.7% in the clinical modified intent-to-treat population. Tigecycline was generally well tolerated in patients with CAP.
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