The problem of antimalarial resistance and its implications for drug discovery

TM Schäfer, L Pessanha de Carvalho… - Expert Opinion on …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Malaria remains a devastating infectious disease with hundreds of thousands of
casualties each year. Antimalarial drug resistance has been a threat to malaria control and …

A Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross reveals the contributions of pfcrt and plasmepsin II/III to piperaquine drug resistance

J Kane, X Li, S Kumar, KA Button-Simons… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Piperaquine (PPQ) is widely used in combination with dihydroartemisinin as a first-line
treatment against malaria. Multiple genetic drivers of PPQ resistance have been reported …

Determinants of piperaquine-resistant malaria in South America

S Mok, DA Fidock - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2024 - thelancet.com
Malaria has seen a worrying resurgence across tropical regions, with cases and mortality
rising after a 15-year decline earlier this century. The major impact falls on sub-Saharan …

Mutation in the 26S proteasome regulatory subunit rpn2 gene in Plasmodium falciparum confers resistance to artemisinin

AF Goncalves, A Lima-Pinheiro, M Teixeira… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Malaria parasites increasingly develop resistance to all drugs available in the
market, hampering the goal of reducing malaria burden. Methods Herein, we evaluated the …

The spread of a validated molecular marker of artemisinin partial resistance pfkelch13 R622I and association with pfhrp2/3 deletions in Eritrea

S Mihreteab, K Anderson, I Molina-de la Fuente… - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
Eritrea was the first African country to switch away from exclusive use of HRP2-based RDTs
for the detection of P. falciparum due to high prevalence of pfhrp2/3-deleted P. falciparum …

Genetic surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum reveals rapid population changes following first-line treatment policy revisions in the Greater Mekong Subregion

TD Verschuuren, V Wasakul, N Thuy-Nhien, E Booth… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background: Genetic surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is an important tool for
tracking antimalarial resistant strains, informing decision-making by National Malaria Control …

Genome-wide association study of global Plasmodium vivax populations provides insights into the evolution of drug resistance

T Clark, G Ngwana-Joseph, J Phelan, E Manko… - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Increasing reports of chloroquine resistance (CQR) in Plasmodium vivax endemic regions
has led to several countries, including Indonesia, to adopt dihydroarteminsin-piperaquine …

[图书][B] Examining the role of PfCRT in piperaquine-resistant P. falciparum malaria to predict the emergence of piperaquine resistance in Africa

LM Hagenah - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The emergence and spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has consistently
been a major barrier to the control and eradication of malaria. Resistance to the affordable …