Megazol is a nitroimidazole based drug that cures some protozoan infections. A study of nitroimidazoles found the drug extremely effective against T. cruzi and T. brucei which cause Chagas disease and African sleeping sickness, respectively.
NEU-1045 is a T. brucei proliferation inhibitor, and is a promising lead with cross-pathogen activity. NEU-1045 inhibited T. brucei, T. cruzi, and L. major proliferation with good potency (T. brucei EC50 = 0.37 μM; T. cruzi EC50 = 2.8 μM; L. major EC50 =