Corallopyronin A for short-course anti-wolbachial, macrofilaricidal treatment of filarial infections.

• Main Authors: Andrea Schiefer (Author), Marc P Hübner (Author), Anna Krome (Author), Christine Lämmer (Author), Alexandra Ehrens (Author), Tilman Aden (Author), Marianne Koschel (Author), Helene Neufeld (Author), Lillibeth Chaverra-Muñoz (Author), Rolf Jansen (Author), Stefan Kehraus (Author), Gabriele M König (Author), Domen Pogorevc (Author), Rolf Müller (Author), Marc Stadler (Author), Stephan Hüttel (Author), Thomas Hesterkamp (Author), Karl Wagner (Author), Kenneth Pfarr (Author), Achim Hoerauf (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Current efforts to eliminate the neglected tropical diseases onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, caused by the filarial nematodes Onchocerca volvulus and Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia spp., respectively, are hampered by lack of a short-course macrofilaricidal-adult-worm killing-treatment. Anti...