Abiotic stress poses major problems to agriculture and increasing efforts are being made to
understand plant stress response and tolerance mechanisms and to develop new tools that …

The 5-nitroimidazole drug metronidazole has remained the drug of choice in the treatment of
anaerobic infections, parasitic as well as bacterial, ever since its development in 1959. In …

Entamoeba histolytica, a protozoan intestinal parasite, is the causative agent of human
amebiasis. Amebiasis is the fourth leading cause of death and the third leading cause of …

Giardia duodenalis is a microaerophilic parasite of the human gastrointestinal tract and a
major contributor to diarrheal and post-infectious chronic gastrointestinal disease world …

Significance: Parasitic infections continue to be a major problem for global human health.
Vaccines are practically not available and chemotherapy is highly unsatisfactory. One …

Amebiasis is an intestinal infection widespread throughout the world caused by the human
pathogen Entamoeba histolytica. Metronidazole has been a drug of choice against …

Efflux pumps play a major role in the increasing antimicrobial resistance rendering a large
number of drugs of no use. Large numbers of pathogens are becoming multidrug resistant …

Mitochondrion-related organelles, mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, are found in a
phylogenetically broad range of organisms. Their components and functions are highly …

The microaerophilic parasites Entamoeba histolytica, Trichomonas vaginalis, and Giardia
lamblia jointly cause hundreds of millions of infections in humans every year. Other …

The human protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica is responsible for amebiasis, a
disease endemic to developing countries. E. histolytica trophozoites colonize the large …