2-aminobenzimidazoles for leishmaniasis: From initial hit discovery to in vivo profiling.

Leishmaniasis is a major infectious disease with hundreds of thousands of new cases and over 20,000 deaths each year. The current drugs to treat this life-threatening infection have several drawbacks such as toxicity and long treatment regimens. A library of 1.8 million compounds, from which the hit...

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Main Authors: Rafael Augusto Alves Ferreira, Celso de Oliveira Rezende Junior, Pablo David Grigol Martinez, Paul John Koovits, Bruna Miranda Soares, Leonardo L G Ferreira, Simone Michelan-Duarte, Rafael Consolin Chelucci, Adriano D Andricopulo, Mariana K Galuppo, Silvia R B Uliana, An Matheeussen, Guy Caljon, Louis Maes, Simon Campbell, Jadel M Kratz, Charles E Mowbray, Luiz Carlos Dias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-02-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009196