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.
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