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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Antimalarial drug resistance: literature review and activities and findings of the ICEMR network

L Cui, S Mharakurwa, D Ndiaye… - The American journal …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antimalarial drugs are key tools for the control and elimination of malaria. Recent decreases
in the global malaria burden are likely due, in part, to the deployment of artemisinin-based …

Malaria biology and disease pathogenesis: insights for new treatments

LH Miller, HC Ackerman, X Su, TE Wellems - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, an infectious disease caused by a parasitic protozoan,
claims the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone and is a top public …

Globally prevalent PfMDR1 mutations modulate Plasmodium falciparum susceptibility to artemisinin-based combination therapies

MI Veiga, SK Dhingra, PP Henrich, J Straimer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Antimalarial chemotherapy, globally reliant on artemisinin-based combination therapies
(ACTs), is threatened by the spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasites …

Discovery, mechanisms of action and combination therapy of artemisinin

L Cui, X Su - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Despite great international efforts, malaria still inflicts an enormous toll on human lives,
especially in Africa. Throughout history, antimalarial medicines have been one of the most …

Antimalarial drug resistance: an overview

HA Antony, SC Parija - Tropical parasitology, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Malaria is a major public health burden throughout the world. Resistance to the antimalarial
drugs has increased the mortality and morbidity rate that is achieved so far through the …

[HTML][HTML] Polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter and multidrug resistance 1 genes: parasite risk factors that affect treatment …

M Venkatesan, NB Gadalla, K Stepniewska… - The American journal …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adequate clinical and parasitologic cure by artemisinin combination therapies relies on the
artemisinin component and the partner drug. Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum …

Multiple populations of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia

O Miotto, J Almagro-Garcia, M Manske, B MacInnis… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
We describe an analysis of genome variation in 825 P. falciparum samples from Asia and
Africa that identifies an unusual pattern of parasite population structure at the epicenter of …

A Secreted Serine-Threonine Kinase Determines Virulence in the Eukaryotic Pathogen Toxoplasma gondii

S Taylor, A Barragan, C Su, B Fux, SJ Fentress, K Tang… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Toxoplasma gondii strains differ dramatically in virulence despite being genetically very
similar. Genetic mapping revealed two closely adjacent quantitative trait loci on parasite …