Search Results - "Colon, Beatrice L"
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Discovery of repurposing drug candidates for the treatment of diseases caused by pathogenic free-living amoebae
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-09-2020)“…Diseases caused by pathogenic free-living amoebae include primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (Naegleria fowleri), granulomatous amoebic encephalitis…”
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Mode of action studies confirm on-target engagement of lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor and lead to new selection marker for Cryptosporidium
Published in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (04-08-2023)“…Cryptosporidiosis is a leading cause of diarrheal-associated morbidity and mortality, predominantly affecting children under 5 years old in…”
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Paving the Way: Contributions of Big Data to Apicomplexan and Kinetoplastid Research
Published in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology (06-06-2022)“…In the age of big data an important question is how to ensure we make the most out of the resources we generate. In this review, we discuss the major methods…”
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Exploitation of Mangrove Endophytic Fungi for Infectious Disease Drug Discovery
Published in Marine drugs (10-10-2018)“…There is an acute need for new and effective agents to treat infectious diseases. We conducted a screening program to assess the potential of mangrove-derived…”
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Blood flukes Cardicola parvus and C. laruei (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae): life cycles and cryptic infection in spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus (Teleost: Sciaenidae)
Published in Parasitology international (01-04-2018)“…Aporocotylidae comprises a diverse family of fish blood flukes, with adults found in blood or body cavity of marine, brackish, or freshwater fish…”
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Phenotypic Screens Reveal Posaconazole as a Rapidly Acting Amebicidal Combination Partner for Treatment of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-03-2019)“…Naegleria fowleri is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which is fatal in >97% of cases. In this study, we aimed to identify…”
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First evidence of polychaete intermediate hosts for Neospirorchis spp. marine turtle blood flukes (Trematoda: Spirorchiidae)
Published in International journal for parasitology (01-12-2018)“…[Display omitted] •There are few known life cycles for spirorchiids and all use mollusks as intermediate hosts.•Sporocysts and spirorchiid-like cercariae were…”
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Bis-benzimidazole hits against Naegleria fowleri discovered with new high-throughput screens
Published in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (01-04-2015)“…Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic free-living amoeba (FLA) that causes an acute fatal disease known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). The major…”
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Cryptosporidium lysyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors define the interplay between solubility and permeability required to achieve efficacy
Published in Science translational medicine (23-10-2024)“…Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrheal disease caused by infection with spp. parasites and is a leading cause of death in malnourished children worldwide. The only…”
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Postzygotic Isolation Evolves before Prezygotic Isolation between Fresh and Saltwater Populations of the Rainwater Killifish, Lucania parva
Published in International Journal of Evolutionary Biology (01-01-2012)“…Divergent natural selection has the potential to drive the evolution of reproductive isolation. The euryhaline killifish Lucania parva has stable populations…”
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Open Source Drug Discovery with the Malaria Box Compound Collection for Neglected Diseases and Beyond
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-07-2016)“…A major cause of the paucity of new starting points for drug discovery is the lack of interaction between academia and industry. Much of the global resource in…”
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