Old drug for arthritis is effective opposite torpedo parasites

<p>A inexpensive off-patent drug that is ordinarily used for <span>arthritis</span> could be a consternation diagnosis for amoebic <span>parasites</span> that taint 50 million people any year, 70,000 of them fatally, a investigate on Sunday said.</p>

<p>Researchers in <span>California</span> found that auranofin, an verbal therapy for arthritis that has been around given 1985, is rarely effective opposite a bug Entamoeba histolytica.</p>
<p>Carried in H2O and food, a bug is a vital though mostly neglected jeopardy in bad countries, causing <span>amoebic dysentery</span> and liver abscesses.</p>
<p>Auranofin was found interjection to a hi-tech programme to shade intensity drugs for “orphan” diseases.</p>
<p>It was tested on parasites in a lab dish, afterwards in mice with <span>amoebic colitis</span> and on hamsters with amoebic liver cysts, according to a study, published ...