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Antimalarials and the fight against malaria in Brazil

Malaria, known as the “fevers,” has been treated for over three thousand years in China with extracts of plants of the genus Artemisia (including Artemisia annua, A. opiacea, and A. lancea) from which the active compound is artemisin, a sesquiterpene that is highly effective in the treatment of the...

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Autores principales: Carmargo, Luiz MA, de Oliveira, Saulo, Basano, Sergio, Garcia, Célia RS
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753125