Article
The clinical impact of artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia and the potential for future spread.
FEMS microbiology reviews - 1 Jan 2017
Woodrow Charles J, White Nicholas J
Abstract excerpt
Artemisinins are the most rapidly acting of currently available antimalarial drugs. Artesunate has become the treatment of choice for severe malaria, and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the foundation of modern falciparum malaria treatment globally. Their safety and tolerability profile is excellent. Unfortunately, Plasmodium falciparum infections with mutations in the 'K13' gene, with reduced...
Topics
- Antimalarials
- Artemisinins
- Asia, Southeastern
- Drug Resistance
- Forecasting
- Humans
- Malaria, Falciparum
- Mutation
- Plasmodium falciparum
