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Fresh hope to can the worms

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Parasitic worms kill many livestock, and the drugs used against them are becoming less effective. The discovery of a class of compounds that kills worms resistant to existing drugs is thus a welcome development.

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Figure 1: Infective larvae in a water droplet in pasture.
Figure 2: Determining the biological target of antiparasitic drugs.

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  1. Roger K. Prichard and Timothy G. Geary are at the Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Sainte Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X3V9, Canada. roger.prichard@mcgill.ca timothy.g.geary@mcgill.ca,

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Prichard, R., Geary, T. Fresh hope to can the worms. Nature 452, 157–158 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452157a

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