antiprotozoal
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Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection.
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Within Vinony's link graph, antiprotozoal is referenced by 256 other articles, and connects out to eukaryote, protozoa and amebiasis.
Vinony files it under Antiprotozoal agents and Biocides.
Its subject is documented across 19 Wikipedia language editions.
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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- antiparasitic
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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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