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New Class of Antibiotic Found That Kills Deadly Drug-Resistant Superbug

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Zosurabalpin is highly effective against the bacterium carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (Crab), which is classified as a “priority 1” pathogen by the World Health Organization due to its growing presence in hospitals.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. COVID-19 Clinical Trials.

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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

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Additionally, it will work on non-clinical toxicity (TOX) and Clinical Trial Material batch to conduct a Phase I clinical trial of the vaccine in healthy adult subjects. This trial will evaluate the safety of the vaccine and generate efficacy data.

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Human infection model drives forward TB vaccine development

Drug Discovery World

Since there aren’t any quick and effective treatments for TB, researchers in clinical trials aren’t able to give patients the disease when there since there would be know quick way of knowing if that patient had been cured.

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Probiotics increase gut bacteria diversity in extremely preterm infants

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A new clinical study has shown that supplements of a lactic acid bacterium may have positive effects by increasing the diversity of intestinal bacteria in these infants. Extremely preterm infants can suffer from a life-threatening inflammation of the gut.

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Sanofi snaps up acne vaccine developer Origimm Bio

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The French group said that ORI-001, a vaccine based on recombinant proteins from the Cutibacterium acnes (formerly Propionibacterium acnes ) bacterium that is often found in acne lesions, could be the first ever vaccine for the condition.

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Nestle gets closer to Seres, pledging $525m for microbiome C. diff drug

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diff – a bacterium that causes diarrhoea and inflammation in the colon and is a major cause of illness and death worldwide – as well as other targets like inflammatory bowel disease. diff coming through clinical trials, some of which also have deep-pocketed partners. billion, but only included markets outside North America.