Maribavir for Treatment of Resistant or Refractory CMV Infections in Transplant Recipients

Summary

This study will assess safety, antiviral activity, and pharmacokinetics of different doses of maribavir administered orally for up to 24 weeks for treatment of CMV infections that are resistant or refractory to treatment with ganciclovir/valganciclovir or foscarnet in recipients of stem cell or solid organ transplants.

Timeline

Start

2012-07-17

Primary completion

2014-12-05

Completion

2014-12-05

Publications

• Vernooij RW, Michael M, Ladhani M, Webster AC, Strippoli GF, Craig JC, Hodson EM. Antiviral medications for preventing cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 May 3;5(5):CD003774. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003774.pub5.
• Sun K, Fournier M, Sundberg AK, Song IH. Maribavir: Mechanism of action, clinical, and translational science. Clin Transl Sci. 2024 Jan;17(1):e13696. doi: 10.1111/cts.13696.
• Chou S, Song K, Wu J, Bo T, Crumpacker C. Drug Resistance Mutations and Associated Phenotypes Detected in Clinical Trials of Maribavir for Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Infection. J Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 4;226(4):576-584. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa462.
• Papanicolaou GA, Silveira FP, Langston AA, Pereira MR, Avery RK, Uknis M, Wijatyk A, Wu J, Boeckh M, Marty FM, Villano S. Maribavir for Refractory or Resistant Cytomegalovirus Infections in Hematopoietic-cell or Solid-organ Transplant Recipients: A Randomized, Dose-ranging, Double-blind, Phase 2 Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Apr 8;68(8):1255-1264. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy706.
• Schubert A, Ehlert K, Schuler-Luettmann S, Gentner E, Mertens T, Michel D. Fast selection of maribavir resistant cytomegalovirus in a bone marrow transplant recipient. BMC Infect Dis. 2013 Jul 19;13:330. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-330.

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