Drug resistance in Plasmodium

K Haldar, S Bhattacharjee, I Safeukui - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
A marked decrease in malaria-related deaths worldwide has been attributed to the
administration of effective antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum, in particular …

Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

KJ Wicht, S Mok, DA Fidock - Annual review of microbiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance, particularly to
artemisinin and its partner drugs, is a top priority. Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant …

Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?

MD Conrad, PJ Rosenthal - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 - thelancet.com
Antimalarial drug resistance, in particular resistance to Plasmodium falciparum, challenges
the treatment and control of malaria. In this Review, we summarise evolving patterns of …

Chloroquine resistance evolution in Plasmodium falciparum is mediated by the putative amino acid transporter AAT1

A Amambua-Ngwa, KA Button-Simons, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria parasites break down host haemoglobin into peptides and amino acids in the
digestive vacuole for export to the parasite cytoplasm for growth: interrupting this process is …

Advances and opportunities in malaria population genomics

DE Neafsey, AR Taylor, BL MacInnis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Almost 20 years have passed since the first reference genome assemblies were published
for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, and Anopheles gambiae, the …

Genetic architecture of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum

O Miotto, R Amato, EA Ashley, B MacInnis… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We report a large multicenter genome-wide association study of Plasmodium falciparum
resistance to artemisinin, the frontline antimalarial drug. Across 15 locations in Southeast …

Drugs in development for malaria

EA Ashley, AP Phyo - Drugs, 2018 - Springer
The last two decades have seen a surge in antimalarial drug development with product
development partnerships taking a leading role. Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the …

Antimalarial drug resistance: literature review and activities and findings of the ICEMR network

L Cui, S Mharakurwa, D Ndiaye… - … American journal of …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Antimalarial drugs are key tools for the control and elimination of malaria. Recent decreases
in the global malaria burden are likely due, in part, to the deployment of artemisinin-based …

Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine

LS Ross, SK Dhingra, S Mok, T Yeo, KJ Wicht… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The widely used antimalarial combination therapy dihydroartemisinin+ piperaquine (DHA+
PPQ) has failed in Cambodia. Here, we perform a genomic analysis that reveals a rapid …

Malaria biology and disease pathogenesis: insights for new treatments

LH Miller, HC Ackerman, X Su, TE Wellems - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, an infectious disease caused by a parasitic protozoan,
claims the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone and is a top public …