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SUBMITTER: Alam A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3988940 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases 20140311
Malaria is a major global parasitic disease and a cause of enormous mortality and morbidity. Widespread drug resistance against currently available antimalarials warrants the identification of novel drug targets and development of new drugs. Malarial proteases are a group of molecules that serve as potential drug targets because of their essentiality for parasite life cycle stages and feasibility of designing specific inhibitors against them. Proteases belonging to various mechanistic classes ar ...[more]