Anthrax News

It seems after the Christmas holiday with all those late nights, rich foods and probably way more sugar than usual, the infamous flu is back wreaking havoc on those taxed immune systems! So, I thought I would write an article on dealing with potent bacteria that are taking advantage of our neglectful ways.

It has developed a pulmonary drug delivery platform, AERx, which can be customized for the delivery of drugs to the target along with liposomal formulations to work on this platform for preferential targeting of certain cell types.

The drugs most commonly used to treat anthrax are quinolones, which act by increasing the levels of DNA cleavage mediated by topoisomerase IV and gyrase.

Albuquerque finds itself at the bottom of another one of those lists where you don't want to be at the bottom.

PharmAthene, Inc. today announced that results from a Phase I clinical study of Valortim were published in the December issue of Clinical and Vaccine Immunology .