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 …

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 …

Uncovering the essential genes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by saturation mutagenesis

M Zhang, C Wang, TD Otto, J Oberstaller, X Liao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Malaria remains a devastating global parasitic disease, with the majority of
malaria deaths caused by the highly virulent Plasmodium falciparum. The extreme AT-bias …

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 …

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 …

Antimalarial drug resistance: a threat to malaria elimination

D Menard, A Dondorp - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Increasing antimalarial drug resistance once again threatens effective antimalarial drug
treatment, malaria control, and elimination. Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are …

Haem-activated promiscuous targeting of artemisinin in Plasmodium falciparum

J Wang, CJ Zhang, WN Chia, CCY Loh, Z Li… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The mechanism of action of artemisinin and its derivatives, the most potent of the anti-
malarial drugs, is not completely understood. Here we present an unbiased chemical …

[HTML][HTML] A Worldwide Map of Plasmodium falciparum K13-Propeller Polymorphisms

D Ménard, N Khim, J Beghain… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recent gains in reducing the global burden of malaria are threatened by the
emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins. The discovery that …

Hit and lead criteria in drug discovery for infectious diseases of the developing world

K Katsuno, JN Burrows, K Duncan… - Nature Reviews drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Reducing the burden of infectious diseases that affect people in the developing world
requires sustained collaborative drug discovery efforts. The quality of the chemical starting …

Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

KJ Wicht, S Mok, DA Fidock - Annual review of microbiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance, particularly to
artemisinin and its partner drugs, is a top priority. Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant …