Parasitology
Dartmouth researchers expose weakness of common parasite
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 16th, 2002
The work, reported in the journal Nature (Feb. 2002), opens new avenues for the development of vaccines and other treatments for diseases such as toxoplasmosis caused by a diverse, but related group of protozoan parasites.
Barbara A. Fox, a research associate, and David J. Bzik, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, found that inactivating a single enzyme in a key biochemical pathway prevented Toxoplasma...
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