Excited to share our new paper, co-led by Gracyn Buenconsejo and me.
Why did a promising anti-#Cryptosporidium drug fail?
We asked whether the parasite itself might already be genetically prepared to escape treatment.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Clofazimine #forwardgenetics
Forward and reverse genetics identifies the mode of action of clofazimine in the parasite Cryptosporidium. The genomic locus encoding the target is heterogeneous, and a resistance-conferring allele is...