antimalarial
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of antimalarial
Example Sentences
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These iron crystals have long been a key focus for antimalarial drugs, yet their unusual movement has puzzled scientists since it was first observed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
It is combined in the drug candidate with a new formulation of lumefantrine, an antimalarial currently used in artemisinin therapies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
“Now is the time to act before millions of people die due to increasingly ineffective antimalarial treatments,” said Prof Olugbenga Mokuolu, from the department of paediatrics at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
The antimalarial is administered orally as soon as patients learn they are pregnant and, if taken on regularly, can significantly reduce the chances of severe malaria over the course of gestation.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024
He started taking malaria pills, but they didn’t do any good, so he asked one of the nurses to give him an injection of an antimalarial drug.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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