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Sunday, January 29, 2017
 
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As for fosfomycin, the oral form is licensed in the US for urinary tract infections. But the woman had a systemic infection and oral fosfomycin would not have done the job, the authors told me. Intravenous fosfomycin might have worked, but it isn’t licensed in the US. It wasn’t available to the doctors treating this woman.
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In a lifethreatening situation it is possible to use unlicensed drugs on a named -patient basis with full patient consent.
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https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/12/nevada-woman-superbug-resistant/

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