Antimalarial drug discovery: Progress and approaches

JL Siqueira-Neto, KJ Wicht, K Chibale… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

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 …

Emergence and clonal expansion of in vitro artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H mutant parasites in Rwanda

A Uwimana, E Legrand, BH Stokes, JLM Ndikumana… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Artemisinin resistance (delayed P. falciparum clearance following artemisinin-based
combination therapy), is widespread across Southeast Asia but to date has not been …

Determinants of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine treatment failure in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam: a prospective clinical …

RW van der Pluijm, M Imwong, NH Chau… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background The emergence and spread of resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria to
artemisinin combination therapies in the Greater Mekong subregion poses a major threat to …

Changing prevalence of potential mediators of aminoquinoline, antifolate, and artemisinin resistance across Uganda

V Asua, MD Conrad, O Aydemir… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background In Uganda, artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for malaria
treatment and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for chemoprevention during pregnancy, but drug …

Malaria chemoprevention and drug resistance: a review of the literature and policy implications

CV Plowe - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Chemoprevention strategies reduce malaria disease and death, but the efficacy of anti-
malarial drugs used for chemoprevention is perennially threatened by drug resistance. This …

Drug resistance in Plasmodium

K Haldar, S Bhattacharjee, I Safeukui - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
A marked decrease in malaria-related deaths worldwide has been attributed to the
administration of effective antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum, in particular …

Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies versus artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a multicentre …

RW van Der Pluijm, R Tripura, RM Hoglund, AP Phyo… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Artemisinin and partner-drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum are major
threats to malaria control and elimination. Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies …

The spread of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in the Greater Mekong subregion: a molecular epidemiology observational study

M Imwong, K Suwannasin, C Kunasol… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Evidence suggests that the PfKelch13 mutations that confer artemisinin
resistance in falciparum malaria have multiple independent origins across the Greater …

Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?

MD Conrad, PJ Rosenthal - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 - thelancet.com
Antimalarial drug resistance, in particular resistance to Plasmodium falciparum, challenges
the treatment and control of malaria. In this Review, we summarise evolving patterns of …