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Published online 18 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021216-8
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Soap slays sleeping sickness
Bacterial hangover renders parasite susceptible to triclosan.
The widespread killer sleeping sickness might be treated with the cheap antibiotic triclosan, scientists revealed at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco, California, this week.
Transmitted by the tsetse fly, the disease affects up to half-a-million people in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
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