Towards next-generation treatment options to combat Plasmodium falciparum malaria

J Okombo, DA Fidock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria, which is caused by infection of red blood cells with Plasmodium parasites, can be
fatal in non-immune individuals if left untreated. The recent approval of the pre-erythrocytic …

Preventing antimalarial drug resistance with triple artemisinin-based combination therapies

TD Nguyen, B Gao, C Amaratunga, M Dhorda… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing levels of artemisinin and partner drug resistance threaten malaria control and
elimination globally. Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies (TACTs) which …

Understanding the Global Spread of Artemisinin Resistance: Insights from over 100K Plasmodium falciparum Samples

AJ Balmer, NFD White, ES Ünlü, C Lee, RD Pearson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Artemisinin partial resistance (ART-R) in Plasmodium falciparum is one of the most pressing
threats to global malaria control. Over the last two decades, ART-R has spread widely …

[HTML][HTML] Derivatives of Amodiaquine as Potent Human Cholinesterases Inhibitors: Implication for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

A Matošević, DM Opsenica, M Bartolić, N Maraković… - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
As some previously reported studies have proven that amodiaquine, in addition to its
primary antimalarial activity, also has potential for new applications such as the inhibition of …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Seasonal Importation and Random Genetic Drift on Selection for Drug-Resistant Genotypes of Plasmodium falciparum in High Transmission Settings

RJ Zupko, JL Servadio, TD Nguyen, TNA Tran, KT Tran… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Historically Plasmodium falciparum has followed a pattern of drug resistance first appearing
in low transmission settings before spreading to high transmission settings. Several features …

Effects of recombination on multi-drug resistance evolution in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

KT Tran, TD Nguyen, DB Weissman, EZ Li, S Mok… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
When multiple beneficial alleles are present in a population but not linked together in any
one individual, there is no general evolutionary result that determines whether …