Artemisinin-based combination therapies: a vital tool in efforts to eliminate malaria

RT Eastman, DA Fidock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine and sulphadoxine–pyrimethamine has led
to the recent adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as the first line of …

Artemisinin resistance: current status and scenarios for containment

AM Dondorp, S Yeung, L White, C Nguon… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
Artemisinin combination therapies are the first-line treatments for uncomplicated
Plasmodium falciparum malaria in most malaria-endemic countries. Recently, partial …

[HTML][HTML] High-content screening in hPSC-neural progenitors identifies drug candidates that inhibit Zika virus infection in fetal-like organoids and adult brain

T Zhou, L Tan, GY Cederquist, Y Fan, BJ Hartley… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infects fetal and adult human brain and is associated with serious
neurological complications. To date, no therapeutic treatment is available to treat ZIKV …

Quinolines and quinolones as antibacterial, antifungal, anti-virulence, antiviral and anti-parasitic agents

L Senerovic, D Opsenica, I Moric, I Aleksic… - … Infectious Diseases and …, 2020 - Springer
Infective diseases have become health threat of a global proportion due to appearance and
spread of microorganisms resistant to majority of therapeutics currently used for their …

Amodiaquine and Artemether-Lumefantrine Select Distinct Alleles of the Plasmodium falciparum mdr1 Gene in Tanzanian Children Treated for Uncomplicated …

GS Humphreys, I Merinopoulos, J Ahmed… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
The artemisinin-based combination therapies artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and
amodiaquine (AQ) plus artesunate have been adopted for treatment of Plasmodium …

Drug bioactivation covalent binding to target proteins and toxicity relevance

S Zhou, E Chan, W Duan, M Huang… - Drug metabolism …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
A number of therapeutic drugs with different structures and mechanisms of action have been
reported to undergo metabolic activation by Phase I or Phase II drug-metabolizing enzymes …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children (IPTc)

AL Wilson, IPTc Taskforce - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children less than five years of
age (IPTc) has been investigated as a measure to control the burden of malaria in the Sahel …

Amodiaquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in vivo is associated with selection of pfcrt 76T and pfmdr1 86Y

G Holmgren, JP Gil, PM Ferreira, MI Veiga… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The choice of partner drug is critical for artemisinine-based combination therapy (ACT) to
remain effective and amodiaquine (AQ) is one important candidate to evaluate. We treated …

Drug-resistant malaria: the era of ACT

JT Lin, JJ Juliano, C Wongsrichanalai - Current infectious disease reports, 2010 - Springer
As drug-resistant falciparum malaria has continued to evolve and spread worldwide,
artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) have become the centerpiece of global …

Current progress in antimalarial pharmacotherapy and multi-target drug discovery

NS Tibon, CH Ng, SL Cheong - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Discovery and development of antimalarial drugs have long been dominated by single-
target therapy. Continuous effort has been made to explore and identify different targets in …