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Abstract
An end to suffering: Parasitic infections with protozoa and worms cause unimaginable misery, in particular in the tropics. Fortunately, natural products, such as the antimalarial artemisinin (1) and the anthelmintic avermectin (2) were discovered and developed into therapeutics. These major achievements now culminated in the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine.Entities:
Keywords: Nobel Prize; antiparasitics; artemisinin; avermectin; malaria; natural products
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26546400 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201509828
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336