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Fexinidazole: A New Drug for African Sleeping Sickness on the Horizon

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TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 178-179

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2017.12.002

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  1. National Institutes of Health [R01AI114685, R01AI124046, R21AI127594]

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Decades after the last new chemical entity was added to the pharmacopeia for human African trypanosomiasis (or sleeping sickness), orally dosed fexinidazole stands poised to replace the current treatment regimen for Trypanosoma brucei gambiense infections, following a positive Phase 2/3 clinical trial.

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