Dried Whole Plant Artemisia annua as an Antimalarial Therapy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Elfawal, Mostafa A ^a   Towler, Melissa J ^b   Reich, Nicholas G ^a   Golenbock, Douglas ^c   Weathers, Pamela J ^b   Rich, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; ANTIMALARIAL THERAPY; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALARIA; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLANT LEAF; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI INFECTION; PRESCRIPTION; RODENT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MICE; PARASITEMIA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; MUS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; RODENTIA;

EID: 84871452293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052746     Document Type: Article

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