Resistance to artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs): do not forget the partner drug!

C Nsanzabana - Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2019 - mdpi.com
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have become the mainstay for malaria
treatment in almost all malaria endemic settings. Artemisinin derivatives are highly potent …

Unpacking 'artemisinin resistance'

J Wang, C Xu, ZR Lun, SR Meshnick - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2017 - cell.com
Artemisinin and its derivatives, in combination with partner drugs, are currently the most
effective treatments for malaria parasite infection. Even though artemisinin has been widely …

[PDF][PDF] Artemisinin and artemisinin-based combination therapy resistance: status report

World Health Organization - 2016 - apps.who.int
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 …

Artemisinin resistance and malaria elimination: Where are we now?

B Hanboonkunupakarn, J Tarning… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of artemisinin resistance is a major obstacle to the global malaria
eradication/elimination programs. Artemisinin is a very fast-acting antimalarial drug and is …

How artemisinin-containing combination therapies slow the spread of antimalarial drug resistance

I Hastings - Trends in parasitology, 2011 - cell.com
Antimalarial drug therapies containing artemisinins,'ACTs', have become the mainstay for
treating uncomplicated malaria in endemic countries. This is a major public health …

[HTML][HTML] Artemisinin-resistant malaria: research challenges, opportunities, and public health implications

RM Fairhurst, GML Nayyar, JG Breman… - The American journal …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Artemisinin-based combination therapies are the most effective drugs to treat Plasmodium
falciparum malaria. Reduced sensitivity to artemisinin monotherapy, coupled with the …

Drug-resistant malaria: the era of ACT

JT Lin, JJ Juliano, C Wongsrichanalai - Current infectious disease reports, 2010 - Springer
As drug-resistant falciparum malaria has continued to evolve and spread worldwide,
artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) have become the centerpiece of global …

Artemisinin-based combination therapies: a vital tool in efforts to eliminate malaria

RT Eastman, DA Fidock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine and sulphadoxine–pyrimethamine has led
to the recent adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as the first line of …

Artemisinin antimalarials: preserving the “magic bullet”

RJ Maude, CJ Woodrow… - Drug development …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The artemisinins are the most effective antimalarial drugs known. They possess a
remarkably wide therapeutic index. These agents have been used in traditional Chinese …

Artemisinin-based antimalarial drug therapy: molecular pharmacology and evolving resistance

LE Heller, PD Roepe - Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2019 - mdpi.com
The molecular pharmacology of artemisinin (ART)-based antimalarial drugs is incompletely
understood. Clinically, these drugs are used in combination with longer lasting partner drugs …