Infectious diseases: Decrypting Cryptosporidium

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 527 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.147 Author: M. Teresa Villanueva Infections that cause diarrhoea — such as cryptosporidiosis, caused by the protozoan parasites Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum — are responsible for nearly a million deaths every year, mostly among children in low-income countries as well as immunodeficient patients. Unfortunately, drug development against
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