Nanomedicines against Infectious Diseases

LETICIA H HIGA; ANA PAULA PEREZ; PRISCILA SCHILRREFF; MARIA J MORILLA; EDER L. ROMERO

Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery

Editorial Science Publishers

Año: 2016; p. 324 - 369

Nanotechnology applied to diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Current parasitic and bacterial diseases of high prevalence, incidence and mortality in sub developed and developing countries: Chagas disease, visceral, muco cutaneous and cutaneous leishmaniasis, tuberculosis and malaria. Design of nano-delivery systems to change drug?s pharmacokinetics, biodistribution and intracellular traffic. Routes of administration. Bases of the action of nano-vaccines and current developments. Clinical and advanced pre-clinical development of therapeutic nano-drug delivery systems. Future directions.