Survey of artemisinin production by diverse <it>Artemisia </it>species in northern Pakistan

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Artemisinin is the current drug of choice for treatment of malaria and a number of other diseases. It is obtained from the annual herb, <it>Artemisia annua </it>and some microbial sources by genetic engineering. There is...

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Main Authors: Asim Muhammad F, Arshad Waheed, Ahmed Ibrar, Mannan Abdul, Qureshi Rizwana A, Hussain Izhar, Mirza Bushra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-11-01
Series:Malaria Journal
Online Access:http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/310