Venus Remedies jumps on getting first patent from Mexico for ‘Vancoplus’

29 Oct 2012 Evaluate

Venus Remedies is currently trading at Rs. 299.50, up by 9.90 points or 3.42% from its previous closing of Rs. 289.60 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 290.60 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 306.00 and Rs. 290.60 respectively. So far 47395 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'B' stock of face value Rs. 10 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 316.00 on 25-Oct-2012 and a 52 week low of Rs. 141.05 on 22-Dec-2011.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 316.00 and Rs. 273.60 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 293.52 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 34.21% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 14.43% and 51.36% respectively.

Venus Remedies has received its first patent from Mexico for ‘Vancoplus’, a novel antibiotic formulation to Combat Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections. The patent has been granted from the Mexico Patent office and is valid till February 2026.

Receiving a paten grant from Mexico for the research product Vancoplus at this point in time when the frequency of MRSA strains is growing high (50-85%) in Mexico, is a great achievement for the company. Vancoplus will prove to be the best known remedy to control MRSA, VRSA (Vancomycin Resistance Staphylococcus aureus) and multi-drug resistant bacteria in a situation wherein around 3 to 6 percent of the population carries the community form of MRSA.

As per the CDC reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010, MRSA infections are constantly on the rise in the community and resistance against antibiotics with nearly 48% of S. aureus isolates were resistant to oxacillin (MRSA), and 49% were resistant to levofloxacin; 33% of Enterococcus faecium isolates were resistant to yancomycin and so on.

Venus Remedies is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company. The company provides formulations in area of antibiotics and oncological therapeutics. The company has two manufacturing facilities located in India and Germany. It manufactures Oncological and Cefelosporine Injectable products.

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