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SUBMITTER: Beteck RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6572618 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beteck Richard M RM Legoabe Lesetja J LJ Isaacs Michelle M Khanye Setshaba D SD Laming Dustin D Hoppe Heinrich C HC
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 20190524 5
<i>Background and objectives</i>: Sleeping sickness and malaria alike are insect-borne protozoan diseases that share overlapping endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa. The causative agent for malaria has developed resistance against all currently deployed anti-malarial agents. In the case of sleeping sickness, the currently deployed therapeutic options are limited in efficacy and activity spectra, and there are very few drug candidates in the development pipeline. Thus, there is a need to search f ...[more]