Current therapies and advances in the development pipeline of pre-erythrocytic preventive drugs

This review highlights the urgent need for effective pre-erythrocytic #malaria #prophylactics beyond current #vaccines, addressing partial efficacy and #DrugResistance, and summarizing advances in targeting liver-stage parasites for next-gen therapies.
#MalariaResearch
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Today on ErosBlog: a 1966 magazine article on condoms. Chiefly it's about the primarily anticompetitive reasons why they were then mostly for sale only via drug stores and not by mail order, but there are disquisitions into (probably spurious) condom history and literary discussions of French […]

Antibiotic emergency ‘could claim 40 million lives in next 25 years’ As superbugs spread across the globe, death rates from antimicrobial resistance are set to double, says England’s former chief medical officer

#Antibiotic #SuperBug #Antimicrobial #Bacteria #AMR #G7 #WHO #MicrobialResistance #ChronicDisease #AntiBiotics #Prophylactics

"We face a growing antibiotic emergency that could have devastating impacts on men, women and children across the globe."

Abridged (shortened) article thread ⏬ 5 min

Slide showing how the immune barrier induced by vaccines and natural infection have been repeatedly evaded by the new COVID-19 variants. Image from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxpJM4gqwec

Broad-Spectrum #COVID-19 #Therapeutics and #Prophylactics

An interesting presentation by Yunlong Richard Cao talking about their development of broadly #neutralizing #antibodies based on prediction of #viral #evolution ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxpJ... ). 🧪🧵1/