“…In some studies, diterpenes in nanoformulations (Roy et al, 2010;Mondal et al, 2013) as well as their laboratory derivatives have been reported to exhibit promising anti-NTDs activities (Watson and Preedy, 2010;Mander and Liu, 2010). Additionally, a number of diterpenes have been reported to act against multiple strains responsible for a particular NTD (Sanchez et al, 2006;Dea-Ayuela et al, 2016;Johnson et al, 1993;Riel et al, 2002;Clarkson et al, 2003;Kalauni et al, 2006;Ojo-Amaize et al, 2007;Wangchuk et al, 2010;González et al, 2014;Namukobe et al, 2015;Liu et al, 1997;Prabu et al, 2015;Encarnación-Dimayuga et al, 2006;Rijo et al, 2010;Arai et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2014a;Xu et al, 2014b) and NTDs (Schmidt et al, 2011;Al Musayeib et al, 2014;Ramírez-Macías et al, 2012;Mothana et al, 2014;Falodun et al, 2014;Mizuno et al, 2015;Mongkolvisut and Sutthivaiyakit, 2007;Rangkaew et al, 2009;Ospina and Rodríguez, 2009;Lekphrom et al, 2010;Almutairi et al, 2014).…”