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Impact of Field Isolate Identified Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Plasmodium falciparum Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 Inhibitor Efficacy.
ACS infectious diseases - 14 Feb 2020
Sosa Yvett, Egbo Deborah, Akabas Myles H
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe form of malaria and causes approximately 500 000 deaths per year. P. falciparum parasites resistant to current antimalarial treatments are spreading. Therefore, it is imperative to develop new antimalarial drugs. Malaria parasites are purine auxotrophic. They rely on purine import from the host erythrocyte via Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters (ENTs). Recently,...
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