Cethromycin promising for community-acquired pneumonia

Inpharma 1594 - 30 Jun 2007

Cethromycin promising forcommunity-acquired pneumoniaCethromycin* shows promise for the treatment of

mild to moderate community-acquired pneumonia,according to the results of a phase III study.

In the multicentre, randomised study, data wereevaluated from 522 such patients who receivedcethromycin 300mg once daily or clarithromycin 250mgtwice daily, for 7 days.

For the primary endpoint, 91.5% of the per protocolcethromycin recipients (n = 224) achieved clinical cure,compared with 95.9% of the clarithromycin recipients(n = 221); cethromycin was considered noninferior toclarithromycin in this outcome measure (p = 0.0775).

Furthermore, the incidence of adverse reaction wasnot significantly different between the cethromycin andclarithromycin groups. During the study, no seriousadverse events associated with either drug wereobserved. There were also similar hepatic and cardiacside effect profiles reported for cethromycin andclarithromycin. The most frequent adverse events forthe cethromycin recipients were mild-to-moderatediarrhoea, headache, nausea and vomiting.* Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Abbott Laboratories; phase III inEurope, the US and a number of other countries for community-acquired pneumonia

Advanced Life Sciences Holdings Inc. Cethromycin Achieves Primary Endpoint inPivotal Phase 3 Pneumonia Clinical Trial. Media Release : 21 Jun 2007. Availablefrom: URL: http://www.advancedlifesciences.com 809077157

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