Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that a therapy's effect on overall clinical success is the attribute that most influences surveyed infectious disease specialists' prescribing decisions in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSIs). Clinical data and the opinions of interviewed thought leaders indicate that current and emerging therapies have no advantage over the combination of piperacillin/tazobactam (Pfizer's Zosyn/Tazocin, generics) plus vancomycin (multiple generics) on this attribute.
The new report entitled Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Recent FDA Nonapprovals Leave Untapped Opportunity for Emerging Broad-Spectrum MRSA Agents finds that an oral, bactericidal antibiotic with activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) for the treatment of cSSSIs would earn a 25 percent patient share in cSSSIs in both the United States and Europe, according to surveyed infectious disease specialists.