New developments in anti-malarial target candidate and product profiles

JN Burrows, S Duparc, WE Gutteridge… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
A decade of discovery and development of new anti-malarial medicines has led to a
renewed focus on malaria elimination and eradication. Changes in the way new anti …

Hepatitis E virus: advances and challenges

I Nimgaonkar, Q Ding, RE Schwartz… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
At least 20 million hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections occur annually, with> 3 million
symptomatic cases and∼ 60,000 fatalities. Hepatitis E is generally self-limiting, with a case …

Rapid, selective heavy metal removal from water by a metal–organic framework/polydopamine composite

DT Sun, L Peng, WS Reeder, SM Moosavi… - ACS central …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Drinking water contamination with heavy metals, particularly lead, is a persistent problem
worldwide with grave public health consequences. Existing purification methods often …

Malaria medicines: a glass half full?

TNC Wells, RH Van Huijsduijnen… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Despite substantial scientific progress over the past two decades, malaria remains a
worldwide burden that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. New, affordable …

malERA: an updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication

RN Rabinovich, C Drakeley, AA Djimde, BF Hall… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

Antimalarial efficacy of MMV390048, an inhibitor of Plasmodium phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase

T Paquet, C Le Manach, DG Cabrera… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
As part of the global effort toward malaria eradication, phenotypic whole-cell screening
revealed the 2-aminopyridine class of small molecules as a good starting point to develop …

Biology of malaria transmission

E Meibalan, M Marti - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Understanding transmission biology at an individual level is a key component of intervention
strategies that target the spread of malaria parasites from human to mosquito. Gametocytes …

A comprehensive model for assessment of liver stage therapies targeting Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum

A Roth, SP Maher, AJ Conway, R Ubalee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Malaria liver stages represent an ideal therapeutic target with a bottleneck in parasite load
and reduced clinical symptoms; however, current in vitro pre-erythrocytic (PE) models for …

Protozoan persister-like cells and drug treatment failure

MP Barrett, DE Kyle, LD Sibley, JB Radke… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial treatment failure threatens our ability to control infections. In addition to
antimicrobial resistance, treatment failures are increasingly understood to derive from cells …

Plasmodium vivax liver stage development and hypnozoite persistence in human liver-chimeric mice

SA Mikolajczak, AM Vaughan, N Kangwanrangsan… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Plasmodium vivax malaria is characterized by periodic relapses of symptomatic blood stage
parasite infections likely initiated by activation of dormant liver stage parasites …