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 …

Evolutionary consequences of drug resistance: shared principles across diverse targets and organisms

D Hughes, DI Andersson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Drug therapy has a crucial role in the treatment of viral, bacterial, fungal and protozoan
infections, as well as the control of human cancer. The success of therapy is being …

Changing prevalence of potential mediators of aminoquinoline, antifolate, and artemisinin resistance across Uganda

V Asua, MD Conrad, O Aydemir… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background In Uganda, artemether-lumefantrine is recommended for malaria
treatment and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for chemoprevention during pregnancy, but drug …

Association of mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum Kelch13 gene (Pf3D7_1343700) with parasite clearance rates after artemisinin-based treatmentsa …

BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background Plasmodium falciparum infections with slow parasite clearance following
artemisinin-based therapies are widespread in the Greater Mekong Subregion. A molecular …

Interrogating the Plasmodium Sporozoite Surface: Identification of Surface-Exposed Proteins and Demonstration of Glycosylation on CSP and TRAP by Mass …

KE Swearingen, SE Lindner, L Shi, MJ Shears… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Malaria parasite infection is initiated by the mosquito-transmitted sporozoite stage, a highly
motile invasive cell that targets hepatocytes in the liver for infection. A promising approach to …

The genomic architecture of antimalarial drug resistance

AN Cowell, EA Winzeler - Briefings in functional genomics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, the two protozoan parasite species that
cause the majority of cases of human malaria, have developed resistance to nearly all …

Strong positive selection biases identity-by-descent-based inferences of recent demography and population structure in Plasmodium falciparum

B Guo, V Borda, R Laboulaye, MD Spring… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria genomic surveillance often estimates parasite genetic relatedness using metrics
such as Identity-By-Decent (IBD), yet strong positive selection stemming from antimalarial …

Chloroquine and sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa—A review

AT Roux, L Maharaj, O Oyegoke, OP Akoniyon… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Malaria is a great concern for global health and accounts for a large amount of morbidity and
mortality, particularly in Africa, with sub-Saharan Africa carrying the greatest burden of the …

Covalent Plasmodium falciparum-selective proteasome inhibitors exhibit a low propensity for generating resistance in vitro and synergize with multiple antimalarial …

BH Stokes, E Yoo, JM Murithi, MR Luth… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Therapeutics with novel modes of action and a low risk of generating resistance are urgently
needed to combat drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Here, we report that the …

Evidence for the early emergence of piperaquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria and modeling strategies to mitigate resistance

JL Small-Saunders, LM Hagenah, KJ Wicht… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites have emerged in Cambodia and
neighboring countries in Southeast Asia, compromising the efficacy of first-line antimalarial …