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Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CBST) VCA Stocks: BioTechnology -> Infections -> Bacterial Infections and Antibiotics

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Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cubist) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products that address unmet medical needs in the acute care environment.

The Company’s products are used primarily in hospitals, but also may be used in acute care settings, including home infusion and hospital outpatient clinics. Cubist’s owns CUBICIN (daptomycin for injection), which is a once-daily, bactericidal, intravenous (I.V.) antibiotic with activity against certain Gram-positive organisms, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), (MRSA). During the year ended December 31, 2009, this product was used in the treatment of more than an estimated 880,000 patients. In December 2009, the Company acquired Calixa Therapeutics Inc.

CUBICIN is used in the United States for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI), caused by S. aureus, and certain other Gram-positive bacteria, and for S. aureus bloodstream infections (bacteremia), including those with right-sided infective endocarditis (RIE), caused by methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant isolates. In the European Union, CUBICIN is used for the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTI), where the presence of susceptible Gram-positive bacteria is confirmed or suspected and for RIE due to S. aureus bacteremia and S. aureus bacteremia associated with RIE or cSSTI.

The Company competes with Abbott Laboratories, Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Pfizer, Inc., King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Wyeth.

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