Tim Roberts
@cerambycidae.bsky.social
Amateur Entomologist with an inordinate fondness for beetles. Medical Doctor.
Southampton UK
Southampton UK
Anyone know the environmental fate of nitisinone? I have a bad feeling it’s excreted unchanged in the urine.
Mosquitoes die after drinking the blood of people taking a drug for metabolic disorders — a discovery that could help to prevent the spread of malaria
https://go.nature.com/4l7FzyR
https://go.nature.com/4l7FzyR
What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so
A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.
go.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Anyone know the environmental fate of nitisinone? I have a bad feeling it’s excreted unchanged in the urine.