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- Title
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015: Two drugs that changed global health.
- Authors
Croft, Simon L.; Ward, Steven
- Abstract
The author discusses Youyou Tu's research on artemisinin, an active antimalarial component from extracts of the plant Artemisia annua, and Bill Campbell and Satoshi Omura's research on ivermectin, a derivative of metabolites from the Gram-positive filamentous Actinomycete bacteria. Topics discussed include role of drugs derived from natural products in antiinfective treatment; reduction in Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases in Africa and prevention or cure of lymphatic filariasis.
- Subjects
ARTEMISININ; IVERMECTIN; FILARIASIS prevention; PLASMODIUM falciparum; MALARIA prevention
- Publication
Science Translational Medicine, 2015, Vol 7, Issue 316, p1
- ISSN
1946-6234
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1126/scitranslmed.aad5868