A promising pipeline of preclinical drug candidates for leishmaniasis and chronic Chagas' disease.

The drug discovery pipeline for leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis has been filling with novel chemical entities with known mechanisms of action. González et al. and Braillard et al. report a cytochrome bc 1 complex inhibitor as another promising preclinical candidate for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and, in combination with benznidazole, for chronic Chagas' disease (CCD). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]