#sleepingsickness — Public Fediverse posts
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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
