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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Functional profiling of a Plasmodium genome reveals an abundance of essential genes

E Bushell, AR Gomes, T Sanderson, B Anar, G Girling… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The genomes of malaria parasites contain many genes of unknown function. To assist drug
development through the identification of essential genes and pathways, we have measured …

Evolution and expansion of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a genomic epidemiology study

WL Hamilton, R Amato, RW van der Pluijm… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background A multidrug-resistant co-lineage of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, named
KEL1/PLA1, spread across Cambodia in 2008–13, causing high rates of treatment failure …

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 …

Plasmodium falciparum K13 mutations in Africa and Asia impact artemisinin resistance and parasite fitness

BH Stokes, SK Dhingra, K Rubiano, S Mok, J Straimer… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The emergence of mutant K13-mediated artemisinin (ART) resistance in Plasmodium
falciparum malaria parasites has led to widespread treatment failures across Southeast …

Artemisinin action and resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

L Tilley, J Straimer, NF Gnädig, SA Ralph… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
The worldwide use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) has contributed in
recent years to a substantial reduction in deaths resulting from Plasmodium falciparum …