SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTR), presented data on the activity of its two lead compounds at the 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC).
Earlier this week, data was presented at ICAAC showing that ulifloxacin, the active metabolite of prulifloxacin, Optimer’s prodrug antibiotic product candidate, has significantly higher antibiotic activity in vitro than ciprofloxacin, the current standard of care for infectious gastroenteritis, or traveler’s diarrhea. This study was conducted and presented by JMI Laboratories, a contract research laboratory.
