Borstnik Kristina, Paik Ik-hyeon, Shapiro Theresa A, Posner Gary H
Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685, USA.
Int J Parasitol. 2002 Dec 4;32(13):1661-7. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7519(02)00195-9.
Mechanism-based rational design and gram-scale chemical synthesis have produced some new trioxane and endoperoxide antimalarial drug candidates that are efficacious and safe. This review summarises recent achievements in this area of peroxide drug development for malaria chemotherapy.