Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

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 …

Increasing prevalence of artemisinin-resistant HRP2-negative malaria in Eritrea

S Mihreteab, L Platon, A Berhane… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Although the clinical efficacy of antimalarial artemisinin-based combination
therapies in Africa remains high, the recent emergence of partial resistance to artemisinin in …

Evolution of partial resistance to artemisinins in malaria parasites in Uganda

MD Conrad, V Asua, S Garg… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Abstract Background Partial resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the artemisinin
component of artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most important malaria drugs …

Evidence of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Africa

B Balikagala, N Fukuda, M Ikeda… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Abstract Background In the six Southeast Asian countries that make up the Greater Mekong
Subregion, Plasmodium falciparum has developed resistance to derivatives of artemisinin …

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 …

Association of Plasmodium falciparum kelch13 R561H genotypes with delayed parasite clearance in Rwanda: an open-label, single-arm, multicentre, therapeutic …

A Uwimana, N Umulisa, M Venkatesan… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Partial artemisinin resistance is suspected if delayed parasite clearance (ie,
persistence of parasitaemia on day 3 after treatment initiation) is observed. Validated …

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 …

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 …

Urea derivatives in modern drug discovery and medicinal chemistry

AK Ghosh, M Brindisi - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The urea functionality is inherent to numerous bioactive compounds, including a variety of
clinically approved therapies. Urea containing compounds are increasingly used in …