Strategies to improve antimicrobial utilization with a special focus on developing countries

B Godman, A Egwuenu, M Haque, OO Malande… - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a high priority across countries as it increases morbidity,
mortality and costs. Concerns with AMR have resulted in multiple initiatives internationally …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

A host defense peptide mimetic, brilacidin, potentiates caspofungin antifungal activity against human pathogenic fungi

TF Dos Reis, PA De Castro, RW Bastos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fungal infections cause more than 1.5 million deaths a year. Due to emerging antifungal
drug resistance, novel strategies are urgently needed to combat life-threatening fungal …

The anticancer human mTOR inhibitor sapanisertib potently inhibits multiple Plasmodium kinases and life cycle stages

LB Arendse, JM Murithi, T Qahash… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Compounds acting on multiple targets are critical to combating antimalarial drug resistance.
Here, we report that the human “mammalian target of rapamycin”(mTOR) inhibitor …

The role of Plasmodium V-ATPase in vacuolar physiology and antimalarial drug uptake

A Alder, CP Sanchez, MRG Russell… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
To ensure their survival in the human bloodstream, malaria parasites degrade up to 80% of
the host erythrocyte hemoglobin in an acidified digestive vacuole. Here, we combine …

2,8-Disubstituted-1,5-naphthyridines as Dual Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase and Hemozoin Formation with In Vivo Efficacy

GA Dziwornu, D Seanego, S Fienberg… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Structure–activity relationship studies of 2, 8-disubstituted-1, 5-naphthyridines, previously
reported as potent inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase β …

The pandemic response Box─ Accelerating drug discovery efforts after disease outbreaks

K Samby, D Besson, A Dutta, B Patra, A Doy… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The current Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the need for a more coordinated and
forward-looking investment in the search for new medicines targeting emerging health care …

Advances in malaria pharmacology and the online guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY: IUPHAR review 38

JF Armstrong, B Campo, SPH Alexander… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimalarial drug discovery has until recently been driven by high‐throughput phenotypic
cellular screening, allowing millions of compounds to be assayed and delivering clinical …

High-throughput screening platform to identify inhibitors of protein synthesis with potential for the treatment of malaria

F Tamaki, F Fisher, R Milne, FSR Terán… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Artemisinin-based combination therapies have been crucial in driving down the global
burden of malaria, the world's largest parasitic killer. However, their efficacy is now …

Screening of the Pandemic Response Box identifies anti-microsporidia compounds

Q Huang, J Chen, G Pan… - PLoS Neglected Tropical …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Microsporidia are fungal obligate intracellular pathogens, which infect most animals and
cause microsporidiosis. Despite the serious threat that microsporidia pose to humans and …