Screening of a library of traditional Chinese medicines to identify anti-malarial compounds and extracts
Abstract Background Malaria is a major infectious disease in the world. In 2015, approximately 212 million people were infected and 429,000 people were killed by this disease. Plasmodium falciparum, which causes falciparum malaria, is becoming resistant to artemisinin (ART) in Southeast Asia; theref...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Malaria Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-018-2392-4 |