The past, present and future of anti-malarial medicines

EG Tse, M Korsik, MH Todd - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Great progress has been made in recent years to reduce the high level of suffering caused
by malaria worldwide. Notably, the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria …

Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

B Blasco, D Leroy, DA Fidock - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The global adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the early 2000s
heralded a new era in effectively treating drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria …

Polypharmacology: challenges and opportunities in drug discovery: miniperspective

A Anighoro, J Bajorath, G Rastelli - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
At present, the legendary magic bullet, ie, a drug with high potency and selectivity toward a
specific biological target, shares the spotlight with an emerging and alternative …

Plasmodium falciparum K13 mutations in Africa and Asia impact artemisinin resistance and parasite fitness

BH Stokes, SK Dhingra, K Rubiano, S Mok, J Straimer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The emergence of mutant K13-mediated artemisinin (ART) resistance in Plasmodium
falciparum malaria parasites has led to widespread treatment failures across Southeast …

Artemisinin action and resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

L Tilley, J Straimer, NF Gnädig, SA Ralph… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
The worldwide use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) has contributed in
recent years to a substantial reduction in deaths resulting from Plasmodium falciparum …

K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

J Straimer, NF Gnädig, B Witkowski, C Amaratunga… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The emergence of artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia imperils efforts to reduce the
global malaria burden. We genetically modified the Plasmodium falciparum K13 locus using …

Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine

LS Ross, SK Dhingra, S Mok, T Yeo, KJ Wicht… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The widely used antimalarial combination therapy dihydroartemisinin+ piperaquine (DHA+
PPQ) has failed in Cambodia. Here, we perform a genomic analysis that reveals a rapid …

Spiroindolones, a potent compound class for the treatment of malaria

M Rottmann, C McNamara, BKS Yeung, MCS Lee… - science, 2010 - science.org
Recent reports of increased tolerance to artemisinin derivatives—the most recently adopted
class of antimalarials—have prompted a need for new treatments. The spirotetrahydro-β …

Local emergence in Amazonia of Plasmodium falciparum k13 C580Y mutants associated with in vitro artemisinin resistance

LC Mathieu, H Cox, AM Early, S Mok, Y Lazrek… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Antimalarial drug resistance has historically arisen through convergent de novo mutations in
Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations in Southeast Asia and South America. For the …

The uncertain role of substandard and falsified medicines in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance

S Cavany, S Nanyonga, C Hauk, C Lim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Approximately 10% of antimicrobials used by humans in low-and middle-income countries
are estimated to be substandard or falsified. In addition to their negative impact on morbidity …