The present invention generally provides methods and compositions for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and depression and/or anxiety. The invention relates to recombinant microorganisms, particularly gut-colonizing probiotics, modified to produce L-DOPA.

The present application is generally directed to novel pneumococcal polypeptide antigens and nucleic acids encoding such antigens, and immunogenic compositions comprising such antigens for treating and preventing pneumococcal infection. The present invention further provides method of using the antigens to elicits an immune response (e.g., IL-17A response, a T cell-mediated and/or B-cell-mediated immune responses). The present invention also provides methods of prophylaxis and/or treatment of pneumococcal-mediated diseases, such as sepsis, comprising administering an immunogenic composition including one or more of a combination of pneumococcal antigens or functional fragments thereof as disclosed herein. In some embodiments, one or more pneumococcal antigens can be present in a polysaccharide conjugate. The compositions induce an anti-pneumococcus immune response when administered to a mammal. The compositions can be used prophylactically to vaccinate an individual and/or therapeutically to induce a therapeutic immune response to an infected individual.

The present disclosure is concerned with xanthine analogs, methods of making xanthine analogs, and methods of treating West Nile virus using these analogs. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

The present invention refers to new glycoconjugate antigens expressing built-in multiple epitopes and to polyvalent glycoconjugate vaccines intended for the protection of mammalians, and particularly for the protection of the human population from enteropathogenic bacteria, such as the Gram-positive anaerobic bacterium Clostridium difficile and the Gram-negative bacteria Salmonella typhi, Escherichia Coli, Vibrio Cholerae, Shigella flexneri, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella paratyphi A, Shigella sonnei, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella cholerasuis, Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and/or from viral gastrointestinal infections due to human noroviruses.

The invention provides topical pharmaceutical gel compositions for the treatment of chronic skin damage, specifically for damage caused by neuropathic ulcers and preferably for the treatment of diabetic foot, and in the treatment of vascular ulcers wherein said compositions comprise a combination of Modified Diallyl Disulfide Oxide (M-DDO) (as an antiseptic/antibiotic agent) and 5-methyl-1-phenyl-2(1H)-pyridone. Furthermore, the invention describes methods of treatment, applications and/or pharmaceutical uses in the preparation of medicaments for eliminating, reducing or preventing chronic skin lesions and the damages caused by neuropathic ulcers and particularly in the treatment of diabetic foot and in the treatment of vascular ulcers.

The present invention provides a fusion polypeptide that induces a humoral immune response and a cellular immune response to a virus, containing antigens or fragments thereof of the following (a) and (b), and having an oligomerization activity: (a) an antigen of the virus or a fragment thereof containing a B cell epitope conserved among subtypes of the virus; and (b) an antigen of the virus or a fragment thereof containing a T cell epitope conserved among subtypes of the virus (wherein the antigen(s) or the fragment(s) thereof of (a) and/or (b) have an oligomerization activity, or the fusion polypeptide further contains (c) a polypeptide having an oligomerization activity in addition to the antigens or the fragments thereof (a) and (b)).

Disclosed are acidic feminine intimate cleansing compositions having a pH in the range of from 3 to 5, which further necessarily comprises at least: as a primary antimicrobial active constituent, lactic acid, which may optionally be a substituted lactic acid and/or derivative thereof; and which composition further includes an anionic constituent system which boosts the antimicrobial efficacy of the primary lactic acid constituent present; and which compositions feature low irritation, and good antimicrobial efficacy against certain species of bacteria. Treatment processes using the feminine intimate cleansing composition in treatment of the groin area of human females, and vendible products containing the feminine intimate cleansing compositions are also disclosed.

A method effective in treating a viral infection involves administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound capable of inhibiting expression of at least a portion of a virus genome containing an internal ribosomal entry site, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound has an azole moiety comprising a five member heterocyclic ring containing at least one nitrogen atom, a hydrophobic moiety bonded to the heterocyclic ring of the azole, and a donor/acceptor moiety bonded to the heterocyclic ring having at least one of hydrogen bond donor and a hydrogen bond acceptor.

The present invention provides oxaborole ester compounds and compositions thereof which are useful to treat diseases associated with parasites, such as Chagas Disease and African Animal Trypanosomosis.

Described herein, are Bovine immunodeficiency virus gag protein (“Bgag”) recombinant virus like particles (“VLPs”) including one or more different types of target pathogen proteins. Also described, are compositions including the Bgag VLPs and the methods of making and using the novel Bgag VLP.