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Abstract
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Artemisinin, the active substance against malaria, was first isolated and tested in the 1970s in China. The important role played by traditional Chinese medicine in the discovery of artemisinin is described by Y. Tu in her Nobel Lecture.Entities:
Keywords: artemisinin; malaria; traditional Chinese medicine
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27488942 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601967
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336