Magic bullets to conquer malaria : from quinine to qinghaosu / Irwin W. Sherman.

Author
Sherman, Irwin W. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2011], ©2011.
Description
xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • From breathing bad air to biting beasts
    • Myth to medicine : quinine
    • Synthetic dyes to drugs : atabrine and chloroquine
    • Antimicrobials to antimalarials
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781555815431 (hardcover)
    • 155581543X (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2010005516
    OCLC
    520440813
    RCP
    C - S
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