Standard Selection Treatments with Sulfadiazine Limit Plasmodium yoelii Host-to-Vector Transmission

ABSTRACT Some antimalarial drugs that have lost clinical usefulness have been repurposed for experimental applications. One example is sulfadiazine, an analog of p-aminobenzoic acid (pABA), which inhibits the parasite’s folate synthesis pathway to block DNA synthesis. Sulfadiazine treatment of mice...

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Main Authors: Kelly T. Rios, Taylor M. Dickson, Scott E. Lindner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00106-22