The activities of current antimalarial drugs on the life cycle stages of Plasmodium: a comparative study with human and rodent parasites.

BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a disease of devastating global impact, killing more than 800,000 people every year-the vast majority being children under the age of 5. While effective therapies are available, if malaria is to be eradicated a broader range of small molecule therapeutics that are able t...

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Main Authors: Delves, M, Plouffe, D, Scheurer, C, Meister, S, Wittlin, S, Winzeler, E, Sinden, R, Leroy, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012