Neglected Diseases: Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2009) | Viewed by 218407
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic chemistry; organic synthesis; chemistry of natural products; medicinal chemistry; medicinal plants; pharmacognosy phytomedicine; search for novel bioactive compounds against malaria and neglected diseases
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Special Issue Information
Aims:
This special issue will focus on the top-ten neglected diseases as defined by the World Health Organization:
- Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT or sleeping sickness)
- Chagas disease
- Dengue
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy
- Lymphatic filariasis (Elephantiasis)
- Malaria
- Onchocerciasis (River Blindness)
- Schistosomiasis ( Bilharzia)
- Tuberculosis
Keywords
- tropical medicine
- infectious diseases
- medicinal chemistry
- natural products chemistry