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Chemicals can kill malaria parasite: study – 7NEWS.com.au
Chemical compounds might potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria, researchers say.
South African scientists have discovered chemical compounds that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and even kill the parasite in its infectious stage, which most available drugs do not.
The research led by the University of Pretoria, published in the Nature Communications journal this week, found that chemical compounds undergoing trials for the treatment of tuberculosis and cancer – the JmjC inhibitor ML324 and the antitubercular clinical candidate SQ109 – can kill…
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