Can repurposing drugs play a role in malaria control? Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Innovative drug treatments for malaria, optimally with novel targets, are needed to combat the threat of parasite drug resistance. As drug development efforts continue, there may be a role for a host-targeting, repurposed cancer drug administered together with an artemisinin combination therapy that was shown to improve the speed of recovery from a malaria infection.

publication date

  • November 22, 2021

Research

keywords

  • Antimalarials
  • Drug Repositioning
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • Malaria
  • Plasmodium falciparum

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC8611732

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85120709050

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1084/jem.20211512

PubMed ID

  • 34807244

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 218

issue

  • 12