How many drugs treat Abscess of brain?

Drug Landscape tracks 2 marketed treatments for Abscess of brain (deduplicated by molecule). 0 Phase 3 candidates and 0 Phase 2 candidates are in the pipeline.

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Last reviewed 2026-06-10 · How we verify

Abscess of brain — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence

Name: Drug Landscape Pharmaceutical Database
Creator: Drug Landscape
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Abscess of brain (disease) competitive landscape: 2 marketed treatments tracked, 0 Phase 3 candidates, 0 Phase 2 candidates. Recent regulatory actions and upcoming PDUFA dates across the entire treatment set.

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Marketed treatment landscape

Approved drugs treating Abscess of brain, deduplicated by molecule. See the full disease page for line-of-therapy detail.

Drug	Generic	Sponsor	Class	Target	Line of therapy	First approval
Metro I.V. In Plastic Container	METRONIDAZOLE	Baxter	Nitroimidazole Antimicrobial [EPC]			1963-01-01
Metronidazol	Metronidazol	University of Oslo		Thioredoxin reductase

Phase 3 pipeline

No Phase 3 pipeline candidates tracked.

Phase 2 pipeline

No Phase 2 pipeline candidates tracked.

Recent regulatory actions (last 90 days)

No regulatory actions in the last 90 days for this treatment set.

Upcoming PDUFA dates (next 180 days)

No PDUFA dates in the next 180 days for this treatment set.

Sponsor landscape

Baxter · 1 drug in Abscess of brain
University of Oslo · 1 drug in Abscess of brain

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Drug Landscape (2026). Abscess of brain — Treatment Landscape & Competitive Intelligence Brief. https://druglandscape.com/ci/disease/abscess-of-brain. Accessed 2026-06-10.

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