Cubicin

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daptomycin

Authorised
This medicine is authorised for use in the European Union.

Overview

Cubicin is an antibiotic medicine, which is used to treat the following bacterial infections:

  • complicated infections of the skin and soft tissue below the skin in patients from 1 year of age. ‘Complicated’ means that the infection is difficult to treat, because it has spread to the deep tissues below the skin, treatment with surgery might be needed or the patient has other conditions that might affect how well treatment works;
  • right-sided infective endocarditis (infection of the lining or the valves of the right side of the heart) caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus (aureus) in adults. The decision to treat this type of infection with Cubicin should be based on the likelihood that the medicine will work against the infection and on advice from an expert;
  • bacteraemia (infection of the blood) caused by aureus. It is used in adults when the bacteraemia is associated with either of the two infections above, or in adolescents and children from 1 year of age when the bacteraemia is associated with complicated infections of the skin and soft tissue.

Prescribers should consider official guidance on the use of antibiotics.

Cubicin contains the active substance daptomycin.

This EPAR was last updated on 15/12/2022

Authorisation details

Product details
Name
Cubicin
Agency product number
EMEA/H/C/000637
Active substance
daptomycin
International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name
daptomycin
Therapeutic area (MeSH)
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
  • Bacteremia
  • Soft Tissue Infections
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial
Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code
J01XX09
Publication details
Marketing-authorisation holder
Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V.
Revision
37
Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union
19/01/2006
Contact address

Waarderweg 39
2031 BN Haarlem
The Netherlands

Product information

06/12/2022 Cubicin - EMEA/H/C/000637 - N/0087

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Pharmacotherapeutic group

Antibacterials for systemic use

Therapeutic indication

Cubicin is indicated for the treatment of the following infections.

  • Adult and paediatric (1 to 17 years of age) patients with complicated skin and soft-tissue infections (cSSTI).
  • Adult patients with right-sided infective endocarditis (RIE) due to Staphylococcus aureus.

It is recommended that the decision to use daptomycin should take into account the antibacterial susceptibility of the organism and should be based on expert advice.

  • Adult and paediatric (1 to 17 years of age) patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB). In adults, use in bacteraemia should be associated with RIE or with cSSTI, while in paediatric patients, use in bacteraemia should be associated with cSSTI.

Daptomycin is active against Gram positive bacteria only. In mixed infections where Gram negative and/or certain types of anaerobic bacteria are suspected, Cubicin should be co-administered with appropriate antibacterial agent(s). Consideration should be given to official guidance on the appropriate use of antibacterial agents.

Assessment history

Changes since initial authorisation of medicine

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