Thursday, August 05, 2010

Glaxo Antibiotic Finding Looms Large in Drug Market With Few New Products - Bloomberg

The new compound, called GSK-299423, works against antibiotic- resistant bugs including strains of Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative microbes such as E. coli, the statement said. While futures sales for an early-stage molecule are difficult to predict, two of the top-selling branded antibiotics, New York-based Pfizer Inc.’s Zyvox and Cubicin, from Lexington, Massachusetts-based Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., generated $1.1 billion and $538 million in sales last year, respectively.

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