The Search for New Antimalarial Drugs from Plants Used to Treat Fever and Malaria or Plants Ramdomly Selected: A Review

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1033-1042

  Krettli, Antoniana U ^a   Andrade Neto, Valter F ^b   Brandão, Maria Das Graças L ^b   Ferrari, Wanêssa M S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimalarial drugs; Ethnopharmacology; Human malaria; Plant extracts; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

AMPELOZIZYPHUS AMAZONICUS; BIDENS PILOSA; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; RHAMNACEAE;

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT, BIDENS PILOSA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALARIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BRAZIL; CHICKENS; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 0035522812     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762001000800002     Document Type: Article

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