Antiplasmodial Studies Within the Plant Family Amaryllidaceae

Plants have long served as a first line of defense response to malaria. They have also spawned several classes of antimalarial drugs such as quinine and artemisinin. However, most if not all of these drugs have succumbed to multidrug resistance, thus reigniting interest in the identification of novel chemotherapies against this parasitic disease. The starting point for many of such endeavors lies with the plants themselves whose extracts have...