Synercid (quinupristin-dalfopristin) is now available for emergency use
February 1996
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer's investigational antibiotic Synercid (quinupristin-dalfopristin) is now available for emergency use...for certain resistant gram positive infections.
It's being used for vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)...and methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) or Staph epidermidis in patients who can't take vancomycin. It also seems to be active against penicillin-resistant pneumococcus.
Both quinupristin and dalfopristin are in a new class of antibiotics called streptogramins. The combination has synergistic effects. (Hence the name Synercid.)
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