Malaria Therapy
Azadirachta indica derivatives not practical for malaria treatment
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 14th, 2003
In a recent study from Nigeria, "The antimalarial activities of the tablet suspension of the bark and leaf of Azadirachta indica were evaluated on Plasmodium yoelli nigeriensis infected mice."
"The tablet suspensions exhibited high prophylactic, moderate suppressive and a very minimal curative schizonticidal effect," according to A.B. Isah and coauthors at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
"No animal was cured of the infection in the curative test and there was not much increase in the survival time of the animals compared...
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