[HTML][HTML] Drug discovery for parasitic diseases: powered by technology, enabled by pharmacology, informed by clinical science

SPS Rao, UH Manjunatha, S Mikolajczak… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
While prevention is a bedrock of public health, innovative therapeutics are needed to
complement the armamentarium of interventions required to achieve disease control and …

Chagas disease: Current view of an ancient and global chemotherapy challenge

J Martín-Escolano, E Medina-Carmona… - ACS Infectious …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease and a global public health issue. In terms of
treatment, no progress has been made since the 1960s, when benznidazole and nifurtimox …

Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes that persist in the colon during chronic stage murine infections have a reduced replication rate

AI Ward, F Olmo, RL Atherton, MC Taylor… - Open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infections are typically lifelong, with small numbers of parasites
surviving in restricted tissue sites, which include the gastrointestinal tract. There is …

In Vivo Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi Persistence Foci at Single-Cell Resolution

AI Ward, MD Lewis, AA Khan, CJ McCann… - Mbio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Infections with Trypanosoma cruzi are usually lifelong despite generating a strong adaptive
immune response. Identifying the sites of parasite persistence is therefore crucial to …

[HTML][HTML] Intracellular DNA replication and differentiation of Trypanosoma cruzi is asynchronous within individual host cells in vivo at all stages of infection

MC Taylor, A Ward, F Olmo… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Investigations into intracellular replication and differentiation of Trypanosoma cruzi within
the mammalian host have been restricted by limitations in our ability to detect parasitized …

[HTML][HTML] Trypanosoma cruzi STIB980: A TcI Strain for Drug Discovery and Reverse Genetics

A Fesser, S Beilstein, M Kaiser, RS Schmidt, P Mäser - Pathogens, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since the first published genome sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi in 2005, there have been
tremendous technological advances in genomics, reverse genetics, and assay development …

Incomplete recruitment of protective T cells is associated with trypanosoma cruzi persistence in the mouse colon

AI Ward, MD Lewis, MC Taylor, JM Kelly - Infection and Immunity, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Following T cell-mediated
suppression of acute-phase infection, this intracellular eukaryotic pathogen persists long …

[HTML][HTML] Motility patterns of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes correlate with the efficiency of parasite invasion in vitro

JA Arias-del-Angel, J Santana-Solano, M Santillán… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Numerous works have demonstrated that trypanosomatid motility is relevant for parasite
replication and sensitivity. Nonetheless, although some findings indirectly suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] A panel of phenotypically and genotypically diverse bioluminescent:fluorescent Trypanosoma cruzi strains as a resource for Chagas disease research

F Olmo, S Jayawardhana, AA Khan… - PLOS Neglected …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan parasite that displays
considerable genetic diversity. Infections result in a range of pathological outcomes, and …

[HTML][HTML] Nanocarrier-enhanced intracellular delivery of benznidazole for treatment of Trypanosoma cruzi infection

X Li, S Yi, DB Scariot, SJ Martinez, BA Falk, CL Olson… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chagas disease is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T.
cruzi), an intracellular pathogen that causes significant morbidity and death among millions …