Perspectives for a new drug candidate for Chagas disease therapy.

Maria de Nazaré Correia Soeiro

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 2022

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Chagas disease (CD), a neglected tropical illness caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, affects more than 6 million people mostly in poor areas of Latin America. CD has two phases: an acute, short phase mainly oligosymptomatic followed to the chronic phase, a long-lasting stage that may trigger cardiac and/or digestive disorders and death. Only two old drugs are available and both present low efficacy in the chronic stage, display side effects and are inactive against parasite strains naturally resistant to these nitroderivatives. These shortcomings justify the search for novel therapeutic options considering the target product profile for CD that will be presently reviewed besides briefly revisiting the data on phosphodiesterase inhibitors upon T. cruzi.

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Maria de Nazaré Correia Soeiro. Perspectives for a new drug candidate for Chagas disease therapy. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 2022;117:e220004