Tropical Protozoan Diseases: Natural Product Drug Discovery and Development
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1 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, 1113 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2Unitat de Farmacologia i Farmacognòsia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain 3 Universidade do Vale do Itajaı́, Núcleo De Investigações Quı́mico-Farmacêuticas (NIQFAR), CCS, Brazil 4Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
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دوره 2013 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013