Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Malaria is known to cause around 1 million deaths per annum. This life-threatening disease is mostly prevalent in Africa. Due to the burgeoning problem of drug resistance, it is getting very difficult to treat patients suffering from this disease. No vaccine has yet been developed for malaria because the parasite keeps changing the interaction of the metabolic pathways during its life cycle. But nature still offers us a plethora of secondary metabolites which have yet to be explored. Plant based medicines have been used traditionally to treat malaria. Therefore one can hope that plant derived drugs can prove to be the source of novel lead compound to control malaria.
Source: South African Journal of Botany
Institution: Sardar Patel University
Language: English
Topic: Malaria Research and Control
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,750
OpenAlex ID: W2994489111