Magic bullets to conquer malaria : from quinine to qinghaosu /
Sherman, Irwin W.
American Society for Microbiology.
Washington, DC : ASM Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-276) and index.
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.
Antimalarials
Malaria