NOVEMBER 22, 2023

New Dual Antibiotic Approval Fills Major Gap in Treating Resistant A. baumannii

By Gina Shaw

The antibiotic combination sulbactam-durlobactam (sul-dur; Xacduro, Entasis Therapeutics) was approved on May 23, 2023, for the treatment of hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex, filling a major therapeutic need in infectious disease.

“This is very exciting news for all of us in the field of infectious diseases,” said Yi Guo, PharmD, the