Merck Sprints Toward Late 2020 Filing For Pneumococcal Vaccine V114
Company Is Catching Up With Pfizer’s Planned Q4 Submission Of 20vPnC
Executive Summary
Merck’s 15-valent vaccine candidate was non-inferior to Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 in a Phase III study and provided superior protection against serotype 3, a frequent cause of invasive pneumococcal disease.
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