Antimalarial drug resistance: Linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

Nature Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 917-928

  Blasco, Benjamin ^a   Leroy, DIdier ^a   Fidock, David A ^b  

^a Medicines for Malaria Venture   (Switzerland)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; ENDOPEROXIDE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 85029313003     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.4381     Document Type: Review

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