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Nicholas J. White

Researcher at Mahidol University

Publications -  1408
Citations -  114434

Nicholas J. White is an academic researcher from Mahidol University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Malaria & Plasmodium falciparum. The author has an hindex of 161, co-authored 1352 publications receiving 104539 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas J. White include Churchill Hospital & Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Spread of Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

Elizabeth A. Ashley, +82 more
TL;DR: Prolonged courses of artemisinin-based combination therapies are currently efficacious in areas where standard 3-day treatments are failing, and the incidence of pretreatment and post-treatment gametocytemia was higher among patients with slow parasite clearance, suggesting greater potential for transmission.
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Antimalarial drug resistance.

TL;DR: Widespread use of these drugs could roll back malaria and Artemisinin-derivative combinations are particularly effective, since they act rapidly and are well tolerated and highly effective.