Abstract Background Parasitaemia on Day 3 has been proposed as a useful alert of
potential artemisinin resistance, however, the normal variation of parasite clearance …

Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the best anti-malarial drugs available
now. Artemisinin enhances efficacy and has the potential of lowering the rate at which …

2. Delayed parasite clearance does not necessarily lead to treatment failure. In the Greater
Mekong subregion (GMS), high treatment failure rates following treatment with an ACT have …

For more than five decades, Southeast Asia (SEA) has been fertile ground for the
emergence of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. After generating parasites …

Following a decade-long scale up of malaria control through vector control interventions, the
introduction of rapid diagnostic tests and highly efficacious Artemisinin-based Combination …

Treatment of symptomatic malaria became a routine component of the clinical and public
health response to malaria after the second world war. However, all antimalarial drugs …

Artemisinin and its derivatives represent the most important and influential class of drugs in
the fight against malaria. Since the discovery of artemisinin in the early 1970s, the global …

Artemisinin is isolated from the plant Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood, an herb employed
in traditional Chinese medicine. Prof. You-you Tu discovered artemisinin in the 1960s, so …

The emergence and spread of antimalarial resistance has been a major liability for malaria
control. The spread of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains had catastrophic …

Application of traditional Chinese drug, artemisinin, originally derived from Artemisia annua
L., in malaria therapy has now been globally accepted. Artemisinin and its derivatives, with …