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An Integrated Approach to Identify New Anti-Filarial Leads to Treat River Blindness, a Neglected Tropical Disease
Filarial worms cause multiple debilitating diseases in millions of people worldwide, including river blindness. Currently available drugs reduce transmission by killing larvae (microfilariae), but there are no effective cures targeting the adult parasites (macrofilaricides) which survive and reprodu...
Autores principales: | Tyagi, Rahul, Bulman, Christina A., Cho-Ngwa, Fidelis, Fischer, Chelsea, Marcellino, Chris, Arkin, Michelle R., McKerrow, James H., McNamara, Case W., Mahoney, Matthew, Tricoche, Nancy, Jawahar, Shabnam, Janetka, James W., Lustigman, Sara, Sakanari, Judy, Mitreva, Makedonka |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7830784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33466870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10010071 |
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