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Posted on 11 January 2013 Dried leaves of Artemisia annua more effective than artemisinin at combatting malaria! A recent study showed that malaria treatment with dried leaves of Artemisia annua is more effective than artemisinin in a rodent malaria model.   Posted on 11 January 2013 Lovastatin prevents neurologic dysfunctions after cerebral malaria! A report recently showed that lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, prevents cognitive impairment in a mouse model of cerebral malaria.   Feature Articles   Posted on 11 January 2013 Placing the Plasmodium falciparum epigenome on the map Trends in Parasitology, Volume 28, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 486-495 Wieteke A.M. Hoeijmakers, Hendrik G. Stunnenberg, Richárd Bártfai   Posted on 11 January 2013 Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of drug-resistant Plasmodium vivax Trends in Parasitology, Volume 28, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 522-529 Ric N. Price, Sarah Auburn, Jutta Marfurt, Qin Cheng   Posted on 11 January 2013 Human ex vivo studies on asexual Plasmodium vivax: The best way forward International Journal for Parasitology, Volume 42, Issue 12, November 2012, Pages 1063-1070 Bruce Russell, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Benoit Malleret, Fabio T.M. Costa, Georges Snounou, J. Kevin Baird, François Nosten, Laurent Rénia   Posted on 11 January 2013 The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 320, 7 March 2013, Pages 58-65 Folashade B. Agusto, Sara Y. Del Valle, Kbenesh W. Blayneh, Calistus N. Ngonghala, Maria J. Goncalves, Nianpeng Li, Ruijun Zhao, Hongfei Gong

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