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

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

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

Pharmaceutical Technology

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

Human challenge models have contributed significantly to the development of vaccines for diseases such as malaria or typhoid, especially in early phase trials. Healthy people who had never had the BCG vaccine before were recruited into the trial. Healthy people who had never had the BCG vaccine before were recruited into the trial.

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Probiotics increase gut bacteria diversity in extremely preterm infants

Scienmag

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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Medicago’s Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Human Trials

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Update (November 11, 2020): Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced positive results from a Phase I trial of its candidate plant-derived vaccine. Interim results of the trial show that all participants developed an antibody response after two doses of the COVID-19 adjuvanted vaccine candidate.

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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.