New anti-Wolbachia drug with potential to treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 14:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have successfully optimized a hit from a whole cell screening of a 10000-compound library to deliver the first novel fully synthetic and rationally designed anti-Wolbachia drug, AWZ1066S, which could potentially be used to treat onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF).