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Fresh hope to can the worms

Nature volume 452, pages 157–158 (2008)Cite this article

Parasitic worms kill many livestock, and the drugs used against them are becoming less effective. The discovery of a class of compounds that kills worms resistant to existing drugs is thus a welcome development.

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Figure 1: Infective larvae in a water droplet in pasture.
Figure 2: Determining the biological target of antiparasitic drugs.

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  1. Roger K. Prichard and Timothy G. Geary are at the Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X3V9, Canada. roger.prichard@mcgill.ca timothy.g.geary@mcgill.ca,

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