Several currently used antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquine and mefloquine, are thought to kill malaria parasites by inhibiting haemozoin biocrystallization.
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"' Haemozoin "'is a disposal product formed from the digestion of blood by some blood-feeding parasites.
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The division into Achromatorida and Chromatorida, although proposed on morphological grounds, may have a biological basis, as the ability to store haemozoin appears to have evolved only once.
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The ability to store haemozoin appears to have evolved only once in the common ancestor of " Haemoproteus ", " Hepatocystis " and " Plasmodium ".