FDA approves treatment for common gynecologic infection: 3 things to know

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Symbiomix Therapeutics on Monday earned Food and Drug Administration approval for its antibiotic Solosec.

Here are three things to know.

1. The single dose antibiotic is intended to treat bacterial vaginosis, the most common gynecologic infection in the country.

2. Solosec is the first oral antibiotic approved for the infection in more than a decade.

3. Symbiomix expects the drug to hit the market in the first quarter of 2018.

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