Propensity of selecting mutant parasites for the antimalarial drug cabamiquine

Abstract We report an analysis of the propensity of the antimalarial agent cabamiquine, a Plasmodium-specific eukaryotic elongation factor 2 inhibitor, to select for resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Through in vitro studies of laboratory strains and clinical isolates, a humanized mouse mod...

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Main Authors: Eva Stadler, Mohamed Maiga, Lukas Friedrich, Vandana Thathy, Claudia Demarta-Gatsi, Antoine Dara, Fanta Sogore, Josefine Striepen, Claude Oeuvray, Abdoulaye A. Djimdé, Marcus C. S. Lee, Laurent Dembélé, David A. Fidock, David S. Khoury, Thomas Spangenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40974-8