The importance of being parasiticidal… an update on drug development for the treatment of alveolar echinococcosis

The lethal disease alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the metacestode stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Current chemotherapeutical treatment of AE relies on albendazole and mebendazole, with the caveat that these compounds are not parasiticidal. Drugs have to be taken for...

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Autores principales: Lundström-Stadelmann, Britta, Rufener, Reto, Ritler, Dominic, Zurbriggen, Raphael, Hemphill, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32095613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fawpar.2019.e00040

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32095613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fawpar.2019.e00040

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