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Forest Laboratories Presents Analysis of Two Positive Pivotal Phase III Studies of Ceftaroline for the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) at ICAAC

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, November 22nd, 2009

Forest Laboratories, Inc (NYSE: FRX) presented at the 49th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco new data from a complete analysis of FOCUS 1 and FOCUS 2, two global multicenter Phase III studies of ceftaroline for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized patients.

Detailed analyses from the previously reported top-line data of the two pivotal trials demonstrated that ceftaroline administered intravenously met the primary endpoint of non-inferiority in patients with moderate to severe CAP requiring hospitalization.1 Ceftaroline therapy was also generally well tolerated, with an adverse...

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