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Miltefosine (INN trade names Impavido and Miltex) is a phospholipid drug. Chemically it is a derivative of alkylphosphocholine compounds discovered in the early 1980s. It was developed in the late 1980s as an anticancer drug by German scientists Hansjörg Eibl and Clemens Unger. Simultaneously but independently it was found that the drug could kill Leishmania parasites and since the mid-1990s successful clinical trials were conducted.
