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| Title |
Natural products as starting points for future anti-malarial therapies: going back to our roots?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-10-s1-s3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Timothy NC Wells |
| Abstract |
The discovery and development of new anti-malarials are at a crossroads. Fixed dose artemisinin combination therapy is now being used to treat a hundred million children each year, with a cost as low as 30 cents per child, with cure rates of over 95%. However, as with all anti-infective strategies, this triumph brings with it the seeds of its own downfall, the emergence of resistance. It takes ten years to develop a new medicine. New classes of medicines to combat malaria, as a result of infection by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are urgently needed. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 368 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Algeria | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 357 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 41 | 11% |
| Researcher | 40 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 39 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 5% |
| Other | 86 | 23% |
| Unknown | 79 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 70 | 19% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 62 | 17% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 43 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 35 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 31 | 8% |
| Other | 40 | 11% |
| Unknown | 87 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 February 2012.
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#15,242,272
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#4,451
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#84,683
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#37
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