Specific chemotherapy of Chagas disease: controversies and advances

Trends in Parasitology - Tập 19 Số 11 - Trang 495-501 - 2003
Julio A. Urbina1, Roberto Docampo2
1Laboratorio de Química Biológica, Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado Postal 21.827, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela.
2Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology and Center for Zoonses Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 61802, USA

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