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Discovering antimalarials: a new strategy
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Chemistry & Biology
|September 3, 2002
Abstract:
Recent discoveries have uncovered some key processes that occur in the food vacuole of the malarial parasite. Consequently, new families of potential antimalarials that inhibit HRP-2, a hitherto unexplored drug target, were identified using a novel screening method.