Establishing EDI for a Clinical Trial of a Treatment for Chikungunya

Cynthia Dickerson, Mark Ensor, Robert A. Lodder

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Abstract

Ellagic acid (EA) is a polyphenolic compound with antiviral activity against chikungunya, a rapidly spreading new tropical disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes and now affecting millions worldwide. The most common symptoms of chikungunya virus infection are fever and joint pain. Other manifestations of infection can include encephalitis and an arthritic joint swelling with pain that may persist for months or years after the initial infection. The disease has recently spread to the U.S.A., with locally-transmitted cases of chikungunya virus reported in Florida. There is no approved vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat chikungunya virus infections. In this study, the Estimated Daily Intake (EDI) of EA from the food supply established using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is used to set a maximum dose of an EA formulation for a high priority clinical trial.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2018 - 18th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsValeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Michael Harold Lees, Peter M. Sloot, Jack Dongarra, Yong Shi, Yingjie Tian, Haohuan Fu
Pages773-782
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018 - Wuxi, China
Duration: Jun 11 2018Jun 13 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10861 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuxi
Period6/11/186/13/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.

Keywords

  • Drug development
  • NHANES
  • Tropical disease

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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