Magic bullets to conquer malaria : from quinine to qinghaosu /

After more than four decades of working on the frontlines in the war against malaria, author Irwin Sherman is uniquely qualified to present this chronicle of the search for medicines to conquer malaria. The book reviews the history of antimalarial medicines and it also explains the hurdles that lie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sherman, Irwin W. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Washington, DC : ASM Press, ©2011.
Series:	Textbook, ASM Press.
Subjects:	Antimalarials > History. Malaria > Treatment > History. Malaria > prevention & control Antimalarials > therapeutic use Malaria > drug therapy Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

From breathing bad air to biting beasts
Myth to medicine : quinine
Synthetic dyes to drugs : atabrine and chloroquine
Antimicrobials to antimalarials : prontosil, pyrimethamine, proguanil, and atovaquone
To destroy liver stages : primaquine and tafenoquine
Quinine to mefloquine
Reversal of fortune
Sweet wormwood of success : qinghaosu
Antibiotics and the apicoplast
A possible dream : control by blocking transmission
The dream of eradication
A reasonable dream.