DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2007 - Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. (OTCBB:CGXP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on
infectious disease and dermatology, today announced the publication
of a research paper on two of the Company's antimicrobial
compounds: CSA-8 and CSA-13. The paper appeared in the April issue
of the Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a
peer-reviewed official Journal of the American Society of
Microbiology, dedicated to advances in the field of applied
microbiology.
The publication is entitled "Antimicrobial Activities of
Ceragenins Against Clinical Isolates of Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus" authored by Drs.Chin, Rybak, Cheung and Savage (Drs. Chin,
Rybak and Cheung are researchers at the Anti-Infective Research
Laboratory of the Eugene Appelbaum College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences, Wayne State University and Dr. Savage is the Reed Izatt
Professor of Chemistry and BioChemistry at Brigham Young
University). Dr. Savage is the inventor of the Ceragenin(TM)
technology and also serves as a consultant to the Company. The
authors highlight the need for development of new antimicrobial
compounds to combat the rising incidence of strains of
Staphylococcus Aureus that are now resistant to methicillin (MRSA)
and vancomycin (VISA, hVISA and VRSA) antibiotics and describe the
potent in vitro activity of CSA-8 and CSA-13 against such strains.
The authors concluded that:
"Ceragenins are unique, low-molecular-mass compounds that have
potent bactericidal activities against both gram-negative and
gram-positive bacteria, particularly clinically relevant pathogens
such as MRSA .... Both CSA-8 and CSA-13 are promising
antimicrobials and may have important therapeutic implications for
infections caused by hVISA and VISA strains. Given that these small
compounds are experimental antimicrobial agents, future safety,
efficacy and pharmokinetic studies in vivo should be performed to
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