Department of Chemistry University of Fort Hare, Alice Campus, Alice, Eastern Cape 5700, South Africa.
Molecules. 2019 Oct 7;24(19):3601. doi: 10.3390/molecules24193601.
Malaria is a vector- and blood-borne infection that is responsible for a large number of deaths around the world. Most of the currently used antimalarial therapeutics suffer from drug resistance. The other limitations associated with the currently used antimalarial drugs are poor drug bioavailability, drug toxicity, and poor water solubility. Combination therapy is one of the best approaches that is currently used to treat malaria, whereby two or more therapeutic agents are combined. Different combination therapy strategies are used to overcome the aforementioned limitations. This review article reports two strategies of combination therapy; the incorporation of two or more antimalarials into polymer-based carriers and hybrid compounds designed by hybridization of two antimalarial pharmacophores.
疟疾是一种由媒介传播和血液传播的感染病,在全球范围内导致了大量死亡。目前使用的大多数抗疟疗法都存在耐药性问题。此外,目前使用的抗疟药物还存在生物利用度低、药物毒性和差的水溶性等局限性。联合治疗是目前用于治疗疟疾的最佳方法之一,即将两种或多种治疗剂联合使用。不同的联合治疗策略用于克服上述局限性。本文报道了两种联合治疗策略,即将两种或多种抗疟药物掺入聚合物载体中,以及通过两种抗疟药效团的杂交设计杂合化合物。