The group currently owns three product assets within the US -
Foscavir, Ethyol and Totect with commercial rights currently licensed to Pfizer (
Foscavir) and Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (Ethyol and Totect).
Alongside the launch, Clinigen KK will transfer the Marketing Authorisation for its lead Specialty Pharmaceutical product,
Foscavir (foscarnet sodium), back from Nobel Pharma on 1 November 2016.
The decision was made to switch from ganciclovir to foscarnet (
Foscavir, Clinigen, Burton-on-Trent, UK) on 23 June.
In October the company received a top US award for making a pioneering new drug -
Foscavir - more widely available.
In case of drug resistance, intravenous foscarnet (
Foscavir; AstraZeneca, Wilmington, NC, USA) and cidofovir (Vistide; Gilead Sciences, Inc., Foster City, CA, USA) maybe used [142].
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Foscavir (Foscarnet) [Package Insert], Clinigen, 2012.
Currently, only two drugs, Cytovene and
Foscavir, are commonly used for treatment of HHV-6.
The drugs reported most frequently to be unavailable or in short supply include the intravenous formulation of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim), amikacin (Amikin), aztreon-am (Azactam), foscarnet (
Foscavir), and penicillin G.