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Targanta Shares Plunge on cSSSI Complete Response

Dec. 10, 2008
By Donna Young
Shares of Targanta Therapeutics Corp. plummeted 40 percent Tuesday after the Cambridge, Mass.-based firm said it received a complete response letter from the FDA asking for another study of oritavancin, an investigational antibiotic being developed for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSIs). (BioWorld Today)
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