Rapid test for the evaluation of the activity of the prodrug hydroxymethylnitrofurazone in the processing of Trypanosoma cruzi messenger RNAs

No fully effective treatment has been developed since the discovery of Chagas' disease by Carlos Chagas in 1909. Since drug-resistant Trypanosoma cruzi strains are occurring and the current therapy is effectiveness in the acute phase but with various adverse side effects, more studies are neede...

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Main Authors: C.F. Barbosa, E.S. Okuda, M.C. Chung, E.I. Ferreira, R.M.B. Cicarelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2007-01-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2007000100005