antiprotozoal
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Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection.
Research
213,684 papers- Antiprotozoal drugs: challenges and opportunities.Expert opinion on therapeutic patents · 2023
- Antiprotozoal and Antitumor Activity of Natural Polycyclic Endoperoxides: Origin, Structures and Biological Activity.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
- Antiprotozoal activities of phospholipid analogues.Molecular and biochemical parasitology · 2003
- [Antiprotozoal drugs].Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine · 2003
- Thiazolidin-4-one-based derivatives - Efficient tools for designing antiprotozoal agents. A review of the last decade.Bioorganic chemistry · 2023
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Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection.
A paraphyletic group, protozoans have little in common with each other. For example, Entamoeba histolytica, a unikont eukaryotic organism, is more closely related to Homo sapiens (humans), which also belongs to the unikont phylogenetic group, than it is to Naegleria fowleri, a "protozoan" bikont. As a result, agents effective against one pathogen may not be effective against another.
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