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SDSU scientists use parasites to explore a scarcely studied phenomenon that may render drugs useless against infections

 

 

Second year chemistry-biochemistry doctoral student Luis Ernst pulls up racks of frozen T. cruzi parasite samples from an ultracold liquid nitrogen tank (Bryana Quintana/SDSU)

 

An infection transmitted by vampire bugs, a disease that attacks the heart, and glowing green microscopic parasites.

These eerie elements are all part of a project led by San Diego State University associate professor Laura-Isobel McCall which tests a new theory on why treatments fail to cure a range of diseases.

Learn more on SDSU NewsCenter.

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