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 …

Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia

AA Fola, SM Feleke, H Mohammed, BG Brhane… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Diagnosis and treatment of Plasmodium falciparum infections are required for effective
malaria control and are pre-requisites for malaria elimination efforts; hence we need to …

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 …

Functional spectrum and specificity of mitochondrial ferredoxins FDX1 and FDX2

V Schulz, S Basu, SA Freibert, H Webert, L Boss… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferredoxins comprise a large family of iron–sulfur (Fe–S) proteins that shuttle electrons in
diverse biological processes. Human mitochondria contain two isoforms of [2Fe-2S] …

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 …

Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies versus artemisinin-based combination therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: a multicentre …

RW van Der Pluijm, R Tripura, RM Hoglund, AP Phyo… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Artemisinin and partner-drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum are major
threats to malaria control and elimination. Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies …

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 …