Anti Infective Peptides

Anti-viral peptides are used to treat infections such as HIV and AIDS, influenza incl. H5N1 strains, hepatitis C virus infections (HCV). Anti-bacterial peptides are used to treat infectiou...

Anti-Inhibitor Coagulant Baxter

Anti-Inhibitor Coagulant Nabi

Anti Infective Antibodies

The emergence of antibiotic resistant microorganisms, lethal viruses and the threat of engineered microorganism have newly stimulated the interest in recombinant antibodies for infectious diseases. Ad...

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Nabi

Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human), Nabi-HB, is a sterile solution of immunoglobulin (5 1 percent protein) containing antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs). It is prepared from plasma...

First HIV-associated anti-diarrheal drug has been approved by FDA

The FDA approves the first anti-diarrheal drug for HIV / AIDS patients in the US. The first anti-diarrheal drug for HIV /AIDS patients has been approved by the FDA for use in the...

New Global Study Pinpoints Main Causes of Childhood Diarrheal Diseases

A new international study published today in The Lancet provides the clearest picture yet of the impact and most common causes of diarrheal diseases, the second leading killer of young children global...

HIV/AIDS Anti-Diarrheal Drug Fulyzaq (Crofelemer) Approved By FDA

The first anti-diarrheal drug for HIV/AIDS patients, Fulyzaq (crofelemer 125 mg delayed-release tablets), has been approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). The Agency informed that it is th...

New global study pinpoints main causes of childhood diarrheal diseases, suggests effective solutions

(Global Health Strategies) A new international study published in The Lancet provides the clearest picture yet of the impact and most common causes of diarrheal diseases, the second leading killer of...

PATH’s Drug Development program announces positive phase 1 results for its anti-diarrheal medication

Climate Change Linked With Increase in Diarrheal Disease

Changes in climate that lead to an increase in temperature and a decrease in precipitation are associated with an increase in diarrheal disease in children in Botswana, a sub-Saharan country with dist...

New study provides clear picture of the impact and causes of diarrheal diseases

A new international study published today in The Lancet provides the clearest picture yet of the impact and most common causes of diarrheal diseases, the second leading killer of young children global...

Bacterium uses natural 'thermometer' to trigger diarrheal disease, scientists find

How does the bacterium Shigella -- the cause of a deadly diarrheal disease -- detect that it's in a human host? Scientists have found that a biological "RNA thermometer" monitors whether the environme...

Prediction of gastrointestinal disease with over-the-counter diarrheal remedy sales records in the San Francisco Bay Area.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Water utilities continue to be interested in implementing syndromic surveillance for the enhanced detection of waterborne disease outbreaks. The authors evaluated the ability of...

Occurrence and investigation of enteric viral infections in pigs with diarrhea in China.

Between February 2011 and February 2012, 985 and 324 samples were collected from diarrheal and healthy pigs, respectively, to detect porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), porcine kobuvirus (PKoV), p...

Entamoeba bangladeshi nov. sp., Bangladesh.

TO THE EDITOR: Diarrheal diseases have a major effect on global health, particularly the health of malnourished children (1). The enteric parasites Entamoeba histolytica and E. moshkovskii are potenti...

Toward a systems approach to enteric pathogen transmission: from individual independence to community interdependence.

Diarrheal disease is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide; thus a large body of research has been produced describing its risks. We review more than four decades of literature on d...

Bacteroides spp. and diarrhea.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this review is to describe recent progress in the understanding of the role of Bacteroides spp. in human diarrheal diseases and newer murine studies implicating certa...