In vitro antimalarial activity of different inhibitors of the plasmodial isoprenoid synthesis pathway

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 5084-5087

  Da Silva, Marcia F ^a   Saito, Alexandre Y ^a   Peres, Valnice J ^a   Oliveira, Antonio C ^a   Katzin, Alejandro M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSMIDOMYCIN; ISOPRENOID; NEROLIDOL; RISEDRONIC ACID; SQUALESTATIN; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; SESQUITERPENE; TERPENE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID; ZARAGOZIC ACID A;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERWINIA; ERWINIA UREDOVORA; IC50; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; METABOLISM;

ANTIMALARIALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BRIDGED BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FOSFOMYCIN; MALARIA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISEDRONATE SODIUM; SESQUITERPENES; TERPENES; TRICARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

EID: 84939807856     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.04161-14     Document Type: Article

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