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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2009

Artemisinin-based combination therapies: a vital tool in efforts to eliminate malaria.

Richard T Eastman, David A Fidock

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05203744 (Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Tafenoquine After Weekly and Escalating Monthly Doses of Tafenoquine in Healthy Vietnamese Volunteers), which is not on this map. Cited by 258 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05203744 phase4unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Tafenoquine After Weekly and Escalating Monthly Doses of Tafenoquine in Healthy Vietnamese Volunteers

TypeinterventionalSponsorNaval Medical Research CenterRan2022 to 2022Enrolled200ConditionsProphylaxisArmsTafenoquine prophylaxis
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

258 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Richard T EastmanDepartment of Microbiology & Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hammer Health Sciences Center, Room 1502, 701 West 168th Street, New York 10032, New York, USA. re2180@columbia.edu
David A Fidock

Funding

Pharmacologic Approaches to Combating Resistance to Antimalarial CombinationsR01AI079709 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI FIDOCK, DAVID A, KYLE, DENNIS E · 2008 to 2011
$2.3M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN MICROBIOLOGY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007161 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI FIDOCK, DAVID A · 1985 to 2008
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI079709NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007161
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine has led to the recent adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as the first line of treatment against malaria. ACTs comprise semisynthetic artemisinin derivatives paired with distinct chemical classes of longer acting drugs. These artemisinins are exceptionally potent against the pathogenic asexual blood stages of Plasmodium parasites and also act on the transmissible sexual stages. These combinations increase the rates of clinical and parasitological cures and decrease the selection pressure for the emergence of antimalarial resistance. This Review article discusses our current knowledge about the mode of action of ACTs, their pharmacological properties and the proposed mechanisms of drug resistance.

Indexed as

Drug SynergismHealth Care SurveysHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeAntimalarialsArtemisininsChloroquineDrug CombinationsDrug DesignDrug InteractionsDrug Therapy, CombinationMalariaMalaria, FalciparumParasitic Sensitivity TestsPlasmodium falciparumPopulation DensityPyrimethamineAntimalarialsArtemisininsChloroquineDrug Combinationsfanasil, pyrimethamine drug combinationPyrimethamineSulfadoxine

Identifiers

PMID19881520
PMCPMC2901398

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