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Nature 452, 296 (20 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452296b; Published online 19 March 2008
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Drug discovery: Schistosome treatment
Sadaf Shadan
The statistics are grim. Schistosomiasis — a tropical disease caused by flatworms of the genus Schistosoma — kills 280,000 people annually.
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