[A Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015 for tropical countries: ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug undeniable against filariasis]

Med Sci (Paris). 2016 Jan;32(1):110-5. doi: 10.1051/medsci/20163201018. Epub 2016 Feb 5.

[Article in French]

Authors

Martin Danis¹, Dominique Richard-Lenoble²

Affiliations

¹ Centre d'immunologie et des maladies infectieuses, U 1135 Inserm/université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris ; Centre national de référence du paludisme, site Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP, Paris, France.
² Médecine tropicale, faculté de médecine, université François-Rabelais, Tours, France.

PMID: 26850616
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20163201018

No abstract available

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article
Portrait

MeSH terms

Antiparasitic Agents / therapeutic use*
Filariasis / drug therapy*
History, 21st Century
Humans
International Cooperation
Ivermectin / therapeutic use*
Japan
Nobel Prize*
Tropical Climate
Tropical Medicine* / history
United States

Substances

Antiparasitic Agents
Ivermectin

Personal name as subject

Satoshi Omura
William C Campbell