SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPTR) today announced that the company has completed enrollment in the second of two planned phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of Prulifloxacin for the treatment of infectious diarrhea in travelers. The Company previously reported positive top-line data from the first Phase 3 trial which showed that Prulifloxacin met the primary endpoint of Time to Last Unformed Stool (TLUS), a measure of the time to resolution of diarrhea, compared to placebo with a p-value of <0.0001. If the results of this second study are also positive, the Company expects to use these studies as a basis for a New Drug Application filing in 2009.
