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 …

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 …

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 …

Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

EA Ashley, M Dhorda, RM Fairhurst… - … England Journal of …, 2014 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has emerged in Southeast
Asia and now poses a threat to the control and elimination of malaria. Mapping the …

[HTML][HTML] A Worldwide Map of Plasmodium falciparum K13-Propeller Polymorphisms

D Ménard, N Khim, J Beghain… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recent gains in reducing the global burden of malaria are threatened by the
emergence of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinins. The discovery that …

A molecular marker of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria

F Ariey, B Witkowski, C Amaratunga, J Beghain… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin derivatives in southeast Asia threatens
malaria control and elimination activities worldwide. To monitor the spread of artemisinin …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and expansion of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a genomic epidemiology study

WL Hamilton, R Amato, RW van der Pluijm… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background A multidrug-resistant co-lineage of Plasmodium falciparum malaria, named
KEL1/PLA1, spread across Cambodia in 2008–13, causing high rates of treatment failure …

A molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

A Mbengue, S Bhattacharjee, T Pandharkar, H Liu… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Artemisinins are the cornerstone of anti-malarial drugs. Emergence and spread of resistance
to them,, raises risk of wiping out recent gains achieved in reducing worldwide malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic architecture of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum

O Miotto, R Amato, EA Ashley, B MacInnis… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We report a large multicenter genome-wide association study of Plasmodium falciparum
resistance to artemisinin, the frontline antimalarial drug. Across 15 locations in Southeast …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic markers associated with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine failure in Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Cambodia: a genotype–phenotype association …

R Amato, P Lim, O Miotto, C Amaratunga… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background As the prevalence of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria
increases in the Greater Mekong subregion, emerging resistance to partner drugs in …