The effectiveness and safety of CLOTIC were evaluated in two phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials in adult patients with unilateral or bilateral otomycosis and intact tympanic membranes (Trial 1, NCT03686384; Trial 2, NCT03686397). The treatment regimen consisted of instilling the contents of one single-dose vial of CLOTIC or placebo in the affected ear canal(s) twice daily for 14 consecutive days. Trial 1 was performed in the U.S. and Mexico; Trial 2 was performed in Europe.
Out of 394 patients randomized in Trial 1 and Trial 2, 228 had a positive baseline fungal culture for Aspergillus species and/or Candida species (mycological intent-to-treat [MITT] population). These patients had a median age of 53 years (range 19 to 89 years); 54% were male, 86% were White, and 28% were Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.
Therapeutic cure was defined as both clinical cure and mycological cure at the test of cure visit which occurred on Day 24 to 26. Clinical cure was defined as a total signs/symptoms score of zero on a 4 point scale for pruritis, otalgia, ear fullness, and otorrhea. Mycological cure was defined as eradication (culture does not show growth of any fungal pathogen) or presumed eradication (there is no material to culture and the overall clinical outcome is clinical cure). In both trials, CLOTIC demonstrated superiority to placebo in the MITT population for the proportion of patients with therapeutic cure.
The results for therapeutic cure (both clinical cure and mycological cure) for each trial are presented in Table 2:
Table 2: Results of Therapeutic Cure in the MITT Population (Trials 1 and 2) | Trial 1 | Trial 2 |
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| CLOTIC N = 82 n (%) | Placebo N = 36 n (%) | CLOTIC N = 75 n (%) | Placebo N = 35 n (%) |
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| Therapeutic Cure | 48 (58.5) | 10 (27.8) | 59 (78.7) | 8 (22.9) |
| Treatment Difference (95% CI) 95% confidence interval for between-treatment group difference is based on Wald method | 30.8 (12.7, 48.9) | 55.8 (39.1, 72.5) |
| p-value | 0.0021 | < 0.0001 |