Several microaerophilic parasites such as , , and are major disease-causing organisms and are responsible for spreading infections worldwide. Despite significant progress made in understanding the metabolism and molecular biology of microaerophilic parasites, chemotherapeutic treatment to control it has seen limited progress. A current proposed strategy for drug discovery against parasitic diseases is the identification of essential key enzymes of metabolic pathways associated with the parasite's survival.
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For many years, tuberculosis (TB) has been a major public health problem worldwide. Advances for treatment and eradication have been very limited. Silymarin (Sm) is a natural product with antioxidant and hepatoprotective activities that has been proposed as a complementary medicine to reduce the liver injury produced by the conventional anti-TB chemotherapy.
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The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis binds to a variety of host cell proteins, including those of the fibrinolytic system. These observations prompted us to study the expression of components of this system in an animal model of progressive pulmonary tuberculosis. Lung homogenates from BALB/c mice infected with M.
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