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Telavancin

Telavancin is not a distinct therapeutic drug class, but rather a specific active pharmaceutical ingredient belonging to the lipoglycopeptide class of antibacterial agents. Read more about Telavancin

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VIBATIV (telavancin HCl)

AGENTS TO TREAT RESISTANT GRAM POSITIVE ORGANISMS · STAPHYLOCOCCUS NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA ·+6
CUMBERLAND PHAR
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About Telavancin.

Telavancin is not a distinct therapeutic drug class, but rather a specific active pharmaceutical ingredient belonging to the lipoglycopeptide class of antibacterial agents.

As a semisynthetic derivative of vancomycin, it exerts bactericidal activity through a dual mechanism: inhibiting late-stage bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan synthesis and disrupting the bacterial cell membrane potential and permeability.

Clinically, it is utilized as an intravenous therapy primarily directed against serious Gram-positive infections, including methicillin-resistant *Staphylococcus aureus* (MRSA).

Its established therapeutic indications encompass complicated skin and skin structure infections as well as hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia when alternative treatment options are unsuitable.