Ethnodiagnostic skills of the Digo community for malaria: a lead to traditional bioprospecting.
Malaria is a major public health problem that is presently complicated by the development of resistance by Plasmodium falciparum to the mainstay drugs. Thus, new drugs with unique structures and mechanism of action are required to treat drug-resistant strains of malaria. Historically, compounds cont...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Pharmacology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphar.2011.00030/full |