WUPPERTAL, Germany & WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AiCuris and Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the publication of results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of letermovir, an investigational, oral antiviral agent for the prevention of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in patients receiving bone marrow transplant. The results published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) show that letermovir in CMV-seropositive allogeneic human blood precursor cell recipients (bone marrow transplant patients) met the study’s two primary efficacy endpoints. Merck plans to conduct a Phase 3 trial of letermovir, also known as AIC246 or MK-8228, starting in the first half of 2014.
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