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 …

Challenges and recent progress in drug discovery for tropical diseases

M De Rycker, B Baragaña, SL Duce, IH Gilbert - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Infectious tropical diseases have a huge effect in terms of mortality and morbidity, and
impose a heavy economic burden on affected countries. These diseases predominantly …

Decreased susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to both dihydroartemisinin and lumefantrine in northern Uganda

PK Tumwebaze, MD Conrad, M Okitwi, S Orena… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Artemisinin partial resistance may facilitate selection of Plasmodium falciparum resistant to
combination therapy partner drugs. We evaluated 99 P. falciparum isolates collected in 2021 …

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 …

Assessing risks of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to select next-generation antimalarials

M Duffey, B Blasco, JN Burrows, TNC Wells… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Strategies to counteract or prevent emerging drug resistance are crucial for the design of
next-generation antimalarials. In the past, resistant parasites were generally identified …

Plasmodium Genomics and Genetics: New Insights into Malaria Pathogenesis, Drug Resistance, Epidemiology, and Evolution

X Su, KD Lane, L **a, JM Sá… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Protozoan Plasmodium parasites are the causative agents of malaria, a deadly disease that
continues to afflict hundreds of millions of people every year. Infections with malaria …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

Antimalarial drug resistance and implications for the WHO global technical strategy

MM Ippolito, KA Moser, JBB Kabuya… - Current epidemiology …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Five years have passed since the World Health Organization
released its Global Technical Strategy for Malaria (GTS). In that time, progress against …

Major subpopulations of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa

A Amambua-Ngwa, L Amenga-Etego, E Kamau… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Understanding genomic variation and population structure of Plasmodium falciparum across
Africa is necessary to sustain progress toward malaria elimination. Genome clustering of …

Elucidating mechanisms of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum

LS Ross, DA Fidock - Cell host & microbe, 2019 - cell.com
Intensified treatment and control efforts since the early 2000s have dramatically reduced the
burden of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. However, drug resistance threatens to derail this …