Save the Antibiotic Xenleta as a Last Resort

October 2019

Xenleta (zen-LEH-tah, lefamulin) will be the first oral and IV med in a new class of "pleuromutilin" antibiotics.

Xenleta is approved for community-acquired pneumonia and covers the common bugs...Strep pneumo, H. flu, and Mycoplasma. It will be touted as an option for resistant infections due to its unique mechanism.

But Xenleta doesn't seem more effective than other antibiotics.

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