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  • Researchers discover compound to stop a pervasive parasitic flatworm

    Feb 10, 2020 8:45 am by Heather SchlitzResearch
    Jonathan Sweedler has led research in the fight against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease.

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    • Jonathan Sweedler has led research in the fight against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease.

    The discovery of the compound, known as Schistosome Paralysis Factor, could be critical for producing a treatment against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease whose impact the CDC has called “second only to malaria.”