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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 334 - 335 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0608-334
Stopping malaria parasites dead in their tracks
Christian D Doerig1
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Christian D. Doerig is at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 609, Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, 120 University Place, Glasgow, Scotland G12 8TA, UK.
e-mail: cdoer001@udcf.gla.ac.uk
Abstract
The search for new antimalarial strategies takes a step forward with the discovery of a small parasitocidal molecule that inhibits a calcium-dependent protein kinase and may thereby interfere with parasite motility.
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