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Phenotypic Screening In Vitro of Novel Aromatic Amidines against Trypanosoma cruzi.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2016
Simões-Silva M R, Nefertiti A S G, De Araújo J S, Batista M M, Da Silva P B, Bahia M T, Menna-Barreto R S, Pavão B P, Green J, Farahat A A, Kumar A, Boykin D W, Soeiro M N C
Abstract excerpt
The current treatment of Chagas disease (CD), based on nifurtimox and benznidazole (Bz), is unsatisfactory. In this context, we performed the phenotypic in vitro screening of novel mono- and diamidines and drug interaction assays with selected compounds. Ten novel amidines were tested for their activities against bloodstream trypomastigote (BT) and amastigote forms of Trypanosoma cruzi (Y and Tulahuen strains)...
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