Publication: How to combat emerging artemisinin resistance: Lessons from “The Three Little Pigs”
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2018-04-01
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Mahidol University
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PLoS Pathogens. Vol.14, No.4 (2018)
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Thanat Chookajorn How to combat emerging artemisinin resistance: Lessons from “The Three Little Pigs”. PLoS Pathogens. Vol.14, No.4 (2018). doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006923 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45190
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How to combat emerging artemisinin resistance: Lessons from “The Three Little Pigs”
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© 2018 Chookajorn Thanat. It is rare to come across an Aesop’s fable in respectable journals. It might catch scientists outside the malaria field by surprise to learn that the famous story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” has been repeatedly compared to the threat from artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites, including the two latest reports on the rise of a specific haplotype in Cambodia and Thailand, sensationally dubbed “Super Malaria” by the media [1, 2]. The comparison to a children’s tale should not negate the fact that malaria drug resistance is one of the most pressing threats to the global public health community. Here, the findings leading to this contentious discourse will be delineated in order to provide a perspective. Possible solutions will be presented to stimulate further research and discussion to solve one of the greatest public health challenges of our lifetime.