Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Cadazolid in Subjects With Clostridium Difficile Associated Diarrhea (CDAD)

Summary

Cadazolid is a new antibiotic developed for the treatment of Clostridiun difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD), also known as Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of different doses of cadazolid in order to find the dose of cadazolid to be used for further clinical development of the compound in subjects with CDAD.

Timeline

Start

2011-01-25

Primary completion

2012-10-16

Completion

2012-11-12

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper The primary endpoint was achieved in 76.5% (80% confidence interval [CI], 58.4, 89.3), 80.0% (63.9, 91.0), 68.4% PMID 26248357 ↗

Publications

• Results Louie T, Nord CE, Talbot GH, Wilcox M, Gerding DN, Buitrago M, Kracker H, Charef P, Cornely OA. Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized, Phase 2 Study Evaluating the Novel Antibiotic Cadazolid in Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Oct;59(10):6266-73. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00504-15. Epub 2015 Jul 27.
• Results Gerding DN, Hecht DW, Louie T, Nord CE, Talbot GH, Cornely OA, Buitrago M, Best E, Sambol S, Osmolski JR, Kracker H, Locher HH, Charef P, Wilcox M. Susceptibility of Clostridium difficile isolates from a Phase 2 clinical trial of cadazolid and vancomycin in C. difficile infection. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2016 Jan;71(1):213-9. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkv300. Epub 2015 Oct 3.

Drugs

Indications