Antimicrobials: Hitting malaria on several levels

Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 665 (2016).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.146

Author: Katharine H. Wrighton
Current antimalarial drugs cannot target all stages of the Plasmodium spp. lifecycle and are challenged by drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Kato et al. sought more effective drugs against this parasite by testing synthetic compounds, the structures of which were based on

Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - October 11, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Katharine H. Wrighton Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research