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SUBMITTER: Pereira AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3227552 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pereira Alban R AR Etzbach Lena L Engene Niclas N Müller Rolf R Gerwick William H WH
Journal of natural products 20110407 5
Molluscicides can play an important role in the control of schistosomiasis because snails of the genus Biomphalaria act as intermediate hosts for the parasite. Schistosomiasis is one of 13 neglected tropical diseases with high morbidity and mortality that collectively affect one billion of the world's poorest population, mainly in developing countries. Thiopalmyrone (1) and palmyrrolinone (2), metabolites isolated from extracts of a Palmyra Atoll environmental assemblage of two cyanobacteria, cf ...[more]