Company Plans to Submit New Drug Application in the United States
Results Presented at ECCMID 2018 Annual Meeting
KENILWORTH, N.J., April 22, 2018 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that a pivotal Phase 3 study of relebactam, the company’s investigational beta-lactamase inhibitor, in combination with imipenem/cilastatin, demonstrated a favorable overall response in the treatment of certain imipenem–non-susceptible bacterial infections, the primary endpoint, with lower treatment-emergent nephrotoxicity (kidney toxicity), a secondary endpoint, compared to a Colistin (colistimethate sodium) plus imipenem regimen.