Tag: drug
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Biologics and drugs are not the sole solution
Consider the chemical war on mosquitoes. Mosquito has been the vector of so many diseases including malaria and dengue that it makes one wonder whether we are capable of winning this battle with the mosquito. This little pest has probably killed more humans than all wars combined and yet we have not been able to…
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Mechanism of action of drugs
As more drugs are discovered, it is often assumed that we understand the logical mechanisms of how drug acts on specific physiology and in terms of bacteria and virus, how that drug inhibits the growth or survival of the microbe. However, in many cases the mechanism of action is understood much later. In the early…