Coronado Biosciences is filing an investigational drug application with the FDA for CNDO-201, which contains 2,500 eggs from a parasite found in pigs.
The treatment follows the logic of the hygiene hypothesis, which holds that as the cleanliness of society has improved, autoimmune diseases have increased.
Read the Boston Globe report on use of parasitic worms to fight Crohn’s disease.
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