Research noteA simple colorimetric method to screen drug cytotoxicity against Leishmania using the dye Alamar Blue®
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Acknowledgements
We thank Dr Conor R. Caffrey (Tropical Disease Research Unit, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco) for critical reading of the manuscript and Dr Thomas Ilg (Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie, Tübingen, Germany) for providing the L. major MRHO/IR/76 vaccine strain. This work was supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Schwerpunkt für tropenmedizinische Forschung in Heidelberg (01 KA 9301/3).
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