Searching for alternatives, Namita and Avadhesha Surolia, of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Advanced Scientific
Research in Jakkur, India, infected mice with the
malaria parasite and then injected them with triclosan.
«Both
malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it
in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research.