Malaria and its medicines with different targets
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https://doi.org/10.61173/abkfq325Keywords:
—Malaria, Plasmodium, ArtemisininAbstract
This article will introduce global disease Malaria, introducing its history, distribution, mechanisms, and life cycle of its parasites plasmodium. Two antimalarial medicines will also be introduced in this paper about their histories, chemical properties and mechanisms of action. Finally, a comparison will be shown in the end of the paper.
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