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Functional Assessment of 2,177 U.S. and International Drugs Identifies the Quinoline Nitroxoline as a Potent Amoebicidal Agent against the Pathogen Balamuthia mandrillaris
Balamuthia mandrillaris is a pathogenic free-living amoeba that causes a rare but almost always fatal infection of the central nervous system called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE). Two distinct forms of B. mandrillaris—a proliferative trophozoite form and a nonproliferative cyst form, whic...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30377287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02051-18 |