Stealth nanocapsules kill Chagas parasites in mouse models

(American Society for Microbiology) Lychnopholide, a substance isolated from a Brazilian plant, and formulated as part of 'nanocapsules' cured more than half of a group of mice that had been infected experimentally with Chagas disease parasites. 'Chagas disease affects millions of people, mainly in poor rural areas of 21 Latin American countries,' said Marta de Lana, Ph.D.
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