Antimony antiparasitic drugs

There remains an urgent need for new effective antiparasitic agents, an area of drug development that has languished because of poor economic return. The spread of resistance to chloroquine (an antimalaria treatment) is one reason for attention to be paid to this area, as well as the sheer numbers of people affected. Antimony compounds (43) and (44) (Figure 20) are used to treat... 

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