Hatchtech Pty Limited

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Incorporated

Other

Vernon Morrison Bowles

Ronald Harding

Lewis David Schulz

John Walker

Mark Douglas Gorrell

Malcolm Roy Brandon

Elza Nicole Theresia Meeusen

Paul Macleman

The disclosure provides a pediculicidal composition comprising a metal chelating agent; a carrier vehicle comprising water and an activating solvent system comprising an alcohol and a hydrocarbon. The carrier vehicle may be in the form of a solution, a cream, an ointment, a foam, a spray, an emulsion or a gel. The disclosure also provides method for use of a pediculicidal composition to treat human head lice and their eggs and methods for controlling head lice infestation.

Pediculicidal composition

A method for inhibiting hatching of an ectoparasite egg, the method comprising exposing the ectoparasite egg to at least one metal chelating agent and/or metalloprotease inhibitor, wherein the metal chelating agent is a compound comprising at least two heteroatoms able to simultaneously coordinate with a metal ion, at least one of the two heteroatoms being selected from nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen and phosphorus, wherein the compound comprises at least one carbocyclic ring substituted with at least one heteroatom and/or with a substituent containing at least one heteroatom, or the compound comprises at least one heterocyclic ring containing at least one heteroatom, wherein said heterocyclic ring is optionally substituted with at least one heteroatom and/or with a substituent containing at least one heteroatom is provided. Methods of treating ectoparasite infestations and compositions for use in such methods are also provided.

Methods and compositions for controlling ectoparasites

Methods and kits for identifying antigens from a pathogen. The antigens identified are preferably those that provide protection for an animal against the pathogen. The steps of the method include providing a sample of the pathogen, isolating the protective antigen from the sample of antigen with an antibody probe. The antibody probe is produced by obtaining a biological sample containing antibody producing cells from an immune animal infected with or challenged by the pathogen or pathogen extract, and obtaining the antibodies from these cells by culturing the cells. These methods and kits are useful for preparing antigens to be used as vaccines, in diagnostic kits, and to prepare polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies.

Protective antigens against disease pathogens

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Vernon Morrison Bowles