Protein map raises hopes for schistosomiasis drugs
Date: 3.5.2006
Chinese scientists have identified thousands of proteins that are crucial to a parasitic worm that infects more than a million people in China and parts of South-East Asia.
The findings could help researchers develop drugs or vaccines against the worm, Schistosoma japonicum, which causes a form of schistosomiasis.
A team led by Han Zeguang of the Chinese National Human Genome Center in Shanghai published the research in the April issue of PLoS Pathogens.
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