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A promising drug study in a mouse model of chagas' disease raises hopes that a major health and socioeconomic problem can be eliminated.

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Kierszenbaum, F. Can a killer be arrested?. Nat Med 2, 1071–1072 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1096-1071

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