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Suppressive effect of azithromycin on Plasmodium berghei mosquito stage development and apicoplast replication

BACKGROUND: Azithromycin (AZM) is a macrolide antibiotic that displays an excellent safety profile even in children and pregnant women and has been shown to have anti-malarial activity against blood stage Plasmodium falciparum. This study evaluated the transmission-blocking effect of AZM using a rod...

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Autores principales: Shimizu, Shoichi, Osada, Yoshio, Kanazawa, Tamotsu, Tanaka, Yoshiya, Arai, Meiji
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20219090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-73