Antibodies are not used as treatments for infectious diseases
Antibodies are widely used and studied as effective treatments and immunotherapies for various infectious diseases, directly contradicting the claim.
The claim states that antibodies are not used as treatments for infectious diseases. Multiple retrieved papers explicitly discuss the use of therapeutic antibodies and monoclonal antibodies for treating infectious conditions (such as bacterial infections, fungal diseases, and viral infections). Therefore, the claim is clearly refuted by the literature.
Ruei‐Min Lu, Yu‐Chyi Hwang, I-Ju Liu, Chi‐Chiu Lee, Han-Zen Tsai, Hsin‐Jung Li, Han‐Chung Wu. Development of therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of diseases. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12929-019-0592-z
This review highlights that therapeutic antibodies are approved for treating various human diseases, including infectious diseases.
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Basabrain AA, Alandijany TA. Unique antibodies across the animal kingdom (birds, camelids, and sharks): therapeutic potential against human respiratory viral infections.. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1723343
This paper notes that antibodies represent indispensable tools against infectious diseases, with widespread application in therapeutic settings.
Seldeslachts L, Feys S, van de Veerdonk FL, Wauters J. Combination therapy for fungal diseases: the role of immunotherapy in the present and the future.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1097/qco.0000000000001220
This review lists monoclonal antibodies as part of the expanding range of adjunctive immunotherapies used in treating infectious diseases such as fungal infections.
Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhu Z, Wang Q, Liu X, Cai Q, Zhang Y, Li Y, Zhao H, Cheng X, Gu J, Zou Q, Jiang J. Targeting a conserved flagellin D1 epitope with 16G10 confers cross-serotype protection in murine <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> infection models.. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2026.2689214
This study demonstrates that monoclonal antibodies can be used successfully as a post-infection immunotherapy to improve survival in bacterial infection models.
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