The killing of African trypanosomes by ethidium bromide.

The killing of African trypanosomes by ethidium bromide.

Introduced in the 1950s, ethidium bromide (EB) is still used as an anti-trypanosomal drug for African cattle although its mechanism of killing has been unclear and controversial. EB has long been known to cause loss of the mitochondrial genome, named kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), a giant network of interl...

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Main Authors: Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Rahul Bakshi, Jianyang Wang, Gokben Yildirir, Beiyu Liu, Valeria Pappas-Brown, Gökhan Tolun, Jack D Griffith, Theresa A Shapiro, Robert E Jensen, Paul T Englund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-12-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21187912/?tool=EBI

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