Progress of research on artemisinin in combination with other anti-malarial drugs.
Shan-Shan Lu, Lanou Wu, Yang ZhaoQing · Journal of Pathogen Biology · 2009
Antimalarial drug resistance in recent years has seriously affected the prevention and treatment of malaria.There is still a definite gap between the development of new drugs and malaria vaccine research and their clinical use.Drug combination therapy is an effective means of malaria control that has become a focus of research.This review summarizes the current development of artemisinin-based drug combinations for the treatment of malaria.