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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
Satish K. Singh, Portage, MI (US);
Lisa A. Adams, Mattawan, MI (US);
Paramita Bandyopadhyay, Portage, MI (US);
Syed Hasan, Portage, MI (US);
Leslie C. Hawley, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Sandra M. Sims, Portage, MI (US);
Pharmacia Corporation, Peapack, NJ (US);
Abstract
There is provided a pharmaceutical preservative free composition suitable for topical administration to an eye, the composition comprising (a) an oxazolidinone antimicrobial drug, for example linezolid, in a therapeutically or prophylactically effective drug concentration that is above the practical limit of solubility of the drug in a substantially isotonic aqueous solution at a physiologically compatible pH, and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable cyclodextrin compound in a concentration sufficient to maintain the drug in solution at such a drug concentration. The composition is particularly useful for the treatment and/or prevention of eye infections due to gram positive bacteria.