Abstract
Background: Despite the substantial progress over the time, malaria remains a major public health concern and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. Resistance to the available antimalarial therapy increases threat to the global public health.
Objective: Overview of currently available antimalarials. Method: Literary survey. Results: The summarized data about different types of antimalarial therapies and their efficiency and modes of action. Conclusion: Despite the seemingly large number of the drugs currently available for malaria treatment, this arsenal is limited due to the narrow variation of their mechanism of action.Keywords: Malaria, Antimalarial drugs, Drug resistance, Mechanism of action, Antimalarial therapy, Plasmodium.
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