Malaria: Multi-drug resistance more alarming than ever
Monday, September 21, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
The efforts of the international community for the past ten years in the fight against malaria have reduced the number of disease-related deaths. The in vitro examination of a strain of parasites solely exposed to artemisinin (the base compound for standard therapy) demonstrates the development of a widespread resistance to most other anti-malarial drugs.