How Key Drug Kills Worms In Tropical Diseases

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How Key Drug Kills Worms in Tropical Diseases

 

 

Charles Mackenzie, a professor of veterinary pathology, works with elephantiasis patients in Tanzania. (Credit: Image courtesy of Michigan State University)

 

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2010) — In a major breakthrough that comes after decades of research and nearly half a billion treatments in humans, scientists have finally unlocked how a key anti-parasitic drug kills the worms brought on by the filarial diseases river blindness and elephantitis.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101110113036.htm