artemisinin an anti-malaria

INTRODUCTION The number people affected by malaria is increasing enormously. This increasing is due to the novel drug resistant variants of the parasite that causes malaria the Plasmodium. This resistance is a consequence of the massive use of the quinoline-related drugs over the last decades. In this scenario, it became important to search for new drugs, active against novel biochemical parasite targets. The drug known as artemisin or Qinghaosu (1), is a result of Chinese government …

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