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Malaria runs rings round artemisinin

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In parts of southeast Asia, malaria parasites are showing resistance to the active ingredient in artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs. Delineation of a cell-signalling pathway might help to explain this phenomenon. See Letter p.683

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Figure 1: Mechanism of resistance.

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