Corallopyronin A for short-course anti-wolbachial, macrofilaricidal treatment of filarial infections.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Andrea Schiefer, Marc P Hübner, Anna Krome, Christine Lämmer, Alexandra Ehrens, Tilman Aden, Marianne Koschel, Helene Neufeld, Lillibeth Chaverra-Muñoz, Rolf Jansen, Stefan Kehraus, Gabriele M König, Domen Pogorevc, Rolf Müller, Marc Stadler, Stephan Hüttel, Thomas Hesterkamp, Karl Wagner, Kenneth Pfarr, Achim Hoerauf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Cora
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008930; https://doaj.org/article/d4370a71cad149209e66761eb918df85

Current efforts to eliminate the neglected tropical diseases onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, caused by the filarial nematodes Onchocerca volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia spp., respectively, are hampered by lack of a short-course macrofilaricidal-adult-worm killing-treatment. Anti...