In the last decades, increasing international migration and travel from Latin America to
Europe have favoured the emergence of tropical diseases outside their “historical” …

Gentian violet (GV) has a long and varied history as a medicinal agent. Historically used as
an antibacterial and antifungal, recent reports have shown its utility as an antitypranosomal …

Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) was discovered over a hundred years ago by its
ability to destroy microorganisms, it has been developed mainly as a cancer therapy. In …

State of the Art tations and mortality due to Chagas' heart disease. However, no clear-cut
epidemiological picture of Chagas' heart disease is yet available, due to the lack of …

BACKGROUND Recent studies showed that essential oils from different pepper species
(Piper spp.) have promising leishmanicidal and trypanocidal activities. OBJECTIVES In …

The last couple of decades has witnessed an incredible development in the progress of
catalytic creation of triarylmethane (TRAM) motif. The broad‐spectrum applications of …

Transfusion transmitted Chagas disease was recognized as a medical problem more than
50 years ago. However, little attention was paid to it by Transfusion Medicine, medical …

We have characterized the spectroscopy properties of crystal violet (CV+) and ethyl violet
(EV+) in liquid solutions as a function of the solvent type and dye concentration. The …

I am especially grateful to Ruth Sensano, director of the Cardenal Maurer (CM) project in
Sucre. Sensano shared with me the planning and design of her successful Chagas' control …

Naphtho [2, 3-b] thiophen-4, 9-quinone and five derivatives were prepared using the Friedel-
Crafts reaction and tandem-lithiation of aromatic diethylamides. These quinones were …