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Parent topics
- Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease [e]
- Phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. [e]
Subtopics
- Plasmodium falciparum [r]: Protozoan parasite, one of the species of Plasmodium that cause falciparum malaria in humans, transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. [e]
Resistance
- Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it [e]
- Drug counterfeiting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mefloquine [r]: An antimalarial approved, as an orphan drug, for Plasmodium vivax chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum prevention and treatment; contraindicated in preexisting major psychiatric disease and associated with new psychiatric disorders [e]
- Traditional Chinese medicine [r]: A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the Chinese culture. (Anonymous (2024), Traditional Chinese Medicine (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]