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THE most important disease of cattle throughout tropical Africa is that due to infection with Trypanosoma congolense, the cause, both directly and indirectly, of a vast amount of impoverishment. The most effective chemotherapeutic agents for this disease yet described in the literature are phenanthridinium compounds1 having the general structure (I), in which two of the substituents are amino-groups and the third is a hydrogen atom.
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KENEFORD, J., LOURIE, E., MORLEY, J. et al. Cinnoline Derivatives as Chemotherapeutic Agents for Trypanosoma congolense Infections. Nature 161, 603–604 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161603a0
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