#sleepingsickness — Public Fediverse posts
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Total Synthesis of Ukabamide, a Drug Candidate against Sleeping Sickness:
Lipopeptide from marine cyanobacteria could lead to new antitrypanosomal drugs
https://www.chemistryviews.org/total-synthesis-of-ukabamide-a-drug-candidate-against-sleeping-sickness/#marinelipopeptide #sleepingsickness #antitrypanosomal #drugdevelopment #chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews
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The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and sleeping sickness https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2023/07/21/the-prospect-of-a-better-treatment-for-chagas-disease-and-human-african-sleeping-sickness/
#Cyanotriazoles are selective topoisomerase II poisons that rapidly cure trypanosome infections https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh0614
"#NeglectedTropicalDiseases caused by #SingleCelled #parasites (#trypanosomatids) include #ChagasDisease, #SleepingSickness & #leishmaniasis. Progress in treatment of these #diseases had been slow, though large chemical library screens are now showing promising results."
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Sleeping sickness is nearing elimination. An experimental drug could help
A promising drug has fanned hope for halting transmission of the disease. Called acoziborole, the drug is taken by mouth in just a single dose. Kasita’s patient, who arrived at the hospital in June 2017, was among the first to try it.
#SleepingSickness #medicine #MedicineandHealth #news #Africa
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Exciting results on a new sleeping sickness drug: 95% effective in late stage patients, and 100% effective in those diagnosed early in a trial in the DRC & Guinea. Could this be the beginning of the end of the disease?
Also more stunning 🦟 pics from Simon Townsley..
#neglecteddiseases #sleepingsickness #globalhealth #tsetseflies
