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Purine and pyrimidine metabolism in parasitic protozoa

Purine and pyrimidine metabolism in parasitic protozoa FEMS Microbiology Reviews 54 (1988) 47-84 47 Published by Elsevier FER 00085 Husain F. Hassan * and Graham H. Coombs University of Glasgow, Department of Zoology, Glasgow, U.K. Received 2 April 1987 Accepted 16 July 1987 Key words: Purine; Pyrimidine; Parasite; Chemotherapy now less useful, due to the advent of drug-re- 1. INTRODUCTION sistant strains of the parasites. There is a pressing Many parasitic protozoa are major causes of need for new antiprotozoal drugs. suffering and economic loss in the world today. Several of the currently available antimicrobial Malaria kills more than a million people every drugs act by interference with some component of year, whereas the trypanosomiases and the leish- the purine and pyrimidine metabolism of the target maniases are also great problems in the tropics organism. This has stimulated the extensive stud- and sub-tropics. Amoebiasis, giardiasis and tri- ies that have been carried out over many years on this area of metabolism in parasitic protozoa. It chomoniasis cause widespread suffering, the latter was hoped that these studies would provide the two being endemic in most countries of the world, baseline data required for the design and develop- and it is at last being widely accepted that toxop- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png FEMS Microbiology Reviews Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press
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© 1988 Federation of European Microbiological Societies
ISSN
0168-6445
eISSN
1574-6976
DOI
10.1111/j.1574-6968.1988.tb02708.x-i1
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3078769
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Abstract

FEMS Microbiology Reviews 54 (1988) 47-84 47 Published by Elsevier FER 00085 Husain F. Hassan * and Graham H. Coombs University of Glasgow, Department of Zoology, Glasgow, U.K. Received 2 April 1987 Accepted 16 July 1987 Key words: Purine; Pyrimidine; Parasite; Chemotherapy now less useful, due to the advent of drug-re- 1. INTRODUCTION sistant strains of the parasites. There is a pressing Many parasitic protozoa are major causes of need for new antiprotozoal drugs. suffering and economic loss in the world today. Several of the currently available antimicrobial Malaria kills more than a million people every drugs act by interference with some component of year, whereas the trypanosomiases and the leish- the purine and pyrimidine metabolism of the target maniases are also great problems in the tropics organism. This has stimulated the extensive stud- and sub-tropics. Amoebiasis, giardiasis and tri- ies that have been carried out over many years on this area of metabolism in parasitic protozoa. It chomoniasis cause widespread suffering, the latter was hoped that these studies would provide the two being endemic in most countries of the world, baseline data required for the design and develop- and it is at last being widely accepted that toxop-

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FEMS Microbiology ReviewsOxford University Press

Published: Feb 1, 1988

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