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Positive Study Results for Ceftaroline Phase III Clinical Study for the Treatment of Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections Presented at ICAAC / IDSA New Data on Ceftaroline, a Novel, Broad-Spectrum Ceph

Published in Drug Law Weekly, November 18th, 2008

New Data on Ceftaroline, a Novel, Broad-Spectrum Cephalosporin in Development for Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections (cSSSI) and Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) presented a detailed analysis of CANVAS I, a globally conducted, multi-center, Phase III clinical trial, at the 48th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy / Infectious Diseases Society of America 46th Annual Meeting (ICAAC / IDSA) in Washington, DC. The results of this 702 patient study demonstrated that ceftaroline monotherapy achieved its primary endpoint of non-inferiority versus the combination of...

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