Schistosomiasis mansoni: novel chemotherapy using a cysteine protease inhibitor.

Schistosomiasis is a chronic, debilitating parasitic disease infecting more than 200 million people and is second only to malaria in terms of public health importance. Due to the lack of a vaccine, patient therapy is heavily reliant on chemotherapy with praziquantel as the World Health Organization-...

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Main Authors: Maha-Hamadien Abdulla, Kee-Chong Lim, Mohammed Sajid, James H McKerrow, Conor R Caffrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1764436?pdf=render