Food-borne trematodiasis: current chemotherapy and advances with artemisinins and synthetic trioxolanes (Publications)
Over 40 million people are infected with food-borne trematodes and 750 million are at risk of food-borne trematodiasis, and yet this tropical disease is neglected. The current arsenal for the treatmen
Pharmacokinetic parameters of artesunate and dihydroartemisinin in rats infected with <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of artesunate, recently discovered to possess promising trematocidal activity, and its main metabolite dihydroartemisinin (DHA) were determined in rats
Trypanocidal, leishmanicidal and cytotoxic effects of anthecotulide-type linear sesquiterpene lactones from Anthemis auriculata (Publications)
Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis pose major public health threats for many countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa and South America. In the present study, we evaluated the in vitro antip
Discovery of dual function acridones as a new antimalarial chemotype (Publications)
Preventing and delaying the emergence of drug resistance is an essential goal of antimalarial drug development. Monotherapy and highly mutable drug targets have each facilitated resistance, and both a