Tropical Parasitic Diseases - the challenge of developing effective treatments.

• In: Symposium T4: Infectious Diseases: the battle we will win on Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 11:15-11:50
• At: Stockholm (Sweden) (2017)
• Type: Presentation
• By: FAIRLAMB, Alan (University of Dundee, School of Life Sciences, Dundee, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Alan H Fairlamb: School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
  
• Abstract:

  By the turn of this century, only a handful of new drugs had been developed over the past 25 years for tropical parasitic diseases.  Many of these drugs were repurposed from veterinary or anticancer research and development (R&D) programmes.  Many were judged not fit-for-purpose for the treatment of poverty-related diseases due to factors such as

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