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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug, C15H22O5, derived from a species of artemisia (Artemisia annua) or produced synthetically and used to treat malaria that is resistant to conventional drug therapy.
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- noun medicine an anti-
malarial drug derived from thewormwood shrub, found as the active ingredient in traditional Chinese medical herbal treatment for malaria, chemically asesquiterpene lactone
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Examples
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Experts say it may only be a matter of time before the highly adaptable malaria parasite evolves to outsmart the compound artemisinin, which is currently the best – and last – line of defence against the disease.
A matter of time 2011
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At the same time, there are worrying signs that the malaria parasite in parts of Southeast Asia is becoming resistant to artemisinin, which is the mainstay of combination therapy for as many as 100 million patients world-wide.
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The drug that is most effective at treating malaria is called artemisinin: it shocks the parasite out of your system and saves your life.
Johann Hari: The Unnoticed War Where Millions of Children's Lives are at Stake 2009
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If approved, Coartem would be the first so-called artemisinin-based combination therapy, or ACT, for malaria on the U.S. market.
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Now, this plant is an Artemisia plant, it's the basic component for artemisinin, which is the best-known treatment for malaria.
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Now, this plant is an Artemisia plant, it's the basic component for artemisinin, which is the best-known treatment for malaria.
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Now, this plant is an Artemisia plant, it's the basic component for artemisinin, which is the best-known treatment for malaria.
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So, a team of Berkeley researchers with 15 million dollars from the Gates Foundation is engineering, designing a radical new way to make the key ingredient, called artemisinin, and they're going to make that drug 10 times cheaper.
John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech John Doerr 2007
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So, a team of Berkeley researchers with 15 million dollars from the Gates Foundation is engineering, designing a radical new way to make the key ingredient, called artemisinin, and they're going to make that drug 10 times cheaper.
John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech John Doerr 2007
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So, a team of Berkeley researchers with 15 million dollars from the Gates Foundation is engineering, designing a radical new way to make the key ingredient, called artemisinin, and they're going to make that drug 10 times cheaper.
John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech John Doerr 2007
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