Strativa Pharmaceuticals, the proprietary products division of Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (NYSE: PRX), today announced that its development partner BioAlliance Pharma SA presented Phase III study results for miconazole Lauriad(R) mucoadhesive buccal tablets (MBT) that demonstrate noninferiority to clotrimazole troches for oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC), an opportunistic infection of the mouth and throat. The data from this study, the largest study to date conducted in OPC, were presented in an oral presentation to attendees at the 49th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in San Francisco. More than 10,000 physicians, researchers and other healthcare professionals from around the globe gather each year at ICAAC to foster worldwide solutions to the problem of infectious diseases.
The randomized, double-blind, double-dummy study compared the efficacy and safety of once-daily miconazole 50 mg MBT to clotrimazole 10 mg troche administered five times per day for treatment of OPC. Results showed no significant differences between miconazole MBT and clotrimazole troches in any of the clinical efficacy endpoints, including the primary endpoint of complete resolution of signs and symptoms of OPC. The study was conducted in 577 HIV/AIDS patients in 40 sites in the United States, Canada and South Africa.