Artemisinin antimalarials: preserving the "magic bullet"
The artemisinins are the most effective antimalarial drugs known. They possess a remarkably wide therapeutic index. These agents have been used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine for more then 2,000 years but were not subjected to scientific scrutiny until the 1970s. The first formal clinical tr...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley-Liss, Inc.
2010
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