title: New antibiotics in the management of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections.
abstract: Acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections (ABSSSIs), often caused by aerobic gram-positive cocci, are most often mild-tomoderate infections that can easily be treated in an outpatient setting. With the rates of these infections substantially increasing in the past decade, owing in part to the emergence of community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), alternative options for the treatment of ABSSSIs are necessary. This editorial reviews the mechanism of action, efficacy, bacterial coverage, and potential side effect profiles for dalbavancin and oritavancin, both semisynthetic lipoglycopeptide antibiotics, and tedizolid, an oxazolidinone. Dalbavancin, oritavancin, and tedizolid have been extremely valuable additions to treatment options for ABSSSIs due to the convenient dosing regimen and the fact that there are fewer resistant organisms to these therapies at this time.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gleghorn
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grimshaw
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006020:Glycopeptides / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D000077427:Lipoglycopeptides; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D018461:Soft Tissue Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology; D017334:Teicoplanin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D006020:Glycopeptides; D000077427:Lipoglycopeptides; D017334:Teicoplanin; C469289:dalbavancin; C100708:oritavancin; D014640:Vancomycin