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Killing the liver-stage malaria parasite with baculovirus: a drug discovery approach

Researchers at Kanazawa University have discovered that an insect virus (a baculovirus) can completely eliminate liver-stage malaria parasites in mice, thus offering hope for safer and more effective treatments for the disease than existing drugs KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY Kanazawa, Japan – Currently, few antimalarial treatments exist that effectively kill liver-stage malaria parasites, which can lay dormant...