Compounds in desert creosote bush could treat giardia, 'brain-eating' amoeba infections
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 13:32
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have found that compounds produced by the creosote bush, a desert plant common to the Southwestern United States, exhibit potent anti-parasitic activity against the protozoa responsible for giardia infections and an amoeba that causes an often-lethal form of encephalitis.