Polypyridylruthenium(II) complexes exert anti-schistosome activity and inhibit parasite acetylcholinesterases

• Madhu K. Sundaraneedi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Madhu K. Sundaraneedi, Bemnet A. Tedla

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Bemnet A. Tedla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Madhu K. Sundaraneedi, Bemnet A. Tedla

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Ramon M. Eichenberger,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Luke Becker,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Darren Pickering,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Michael J. Smout,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• Siji Rajan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Phurpa Wangchuk,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• F. Richard Keene,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, School of Physical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Alex Loukas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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• J. Grant Collins ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au (MSP); J.Collins@adfa.edu.au (JGC)

  Affiliation School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Mark S. Pearson

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.pearson@jcu.edu.au (MSP); J.Collins@adfa.edu.au (JGC)

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0002-1544

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