How to Use antimalarial in a Sentence

antimalarial

adjective
  • One of these targets is the drop in pH. This is the step that's targeted by chloroquine, the antimalarial drug.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Since her discovery of artemisinin in the 1970s, antimalarial drugs based on the substance have saved millions of lives.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Tu followed a hunch about how to extract an antimalarial compound from the qinghao or artemisia plant.
    Maggie Villiger, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro are fans of his antimalarial drug.
    The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • The study, published Friday in the medical journal the Lancet, is the largest analysis to date of the risks and benefits of treating covid-19 patients with antimalarial drugs.
    Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
  • The two have also been at odds over the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, to treat patients with the coronavirus.
    Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 9 July 2020
  • Some of the patients also received antibiotics that are thought to enhance the benefit of the antimalarial drugs.
    John Lauerman, Bloomberg.com, 29 May 2020
  • And antimalarial drugs and other tools have long helped offset the burden of malaria, said Birkett, so the vaccine wasn’t a priority in the same sense compared to Covid-19.
    Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • Gerwick now has funding to explore carmaphycin B as a new antimalarial drug.
    Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022
  • Barring that or the emergence of any other large-scale, controlled trial, the evidence for the antimalarial drugs remains thin to the point of nonexistent, while evidence for the dangers mounts.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Amodiaquine was first synthesized in the mid-1940s, at a time when scientists were making artificial versions of the antimalarial compound quinine, which is found in the bark of the cinchona tree.
    Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Scientists are not completely sure why, but suspect it’s partly to do with the fact that antimalarial drugs are widely and heavily used there, Hamilton said.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • On March 19, Trump began boosting the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydryroxychloroquine as having the potential to fight the virus.
    Brianna Provenzano, refinery29.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • One way to prevent such cross-species jumps would be to insert the antimalarial genes not into a symbiotic microbe, but directly into the genomes of the mosquitoes themselves.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Novartis runs a program called SMS for Life, which helps village clinics use mobile phones to report when their supplies of antimalarial medicines are running low and need to be replenished.
    Vas Narasimhan, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The field has remarkable potential and has already been used to aid the production of antimalarial drugs and synthetic flavorings.
    Robert Hart, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Generally, fake malaria drugs imitate one of two types of common antimalarial medicines: quinines and artemisins.
    Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2018
  • San Antonio researchers have developed a new way to produce an antimalarial drug that could save thousands of lives from one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.
    Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • But even after treating hundreds of patients with the antimalarial drug, the doctors interviewed did not report clear results or remarkable recoveries that can be traced to the drug.
    Katie Thomas, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • At least 227 involved hydroxychloroquine—the antimalarial drug that Donald Trump hyped for months.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • India, the world’s biggest maker of generic drugs, has done the same with hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that some suggest (with little evidence) might treat covid-19.
    The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The 40-year-old Stockton, California, woman was told the decades-old antimalarial drug commonly prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis was in short supply.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The drugs to be tested are the antiviral drug remdesivir; a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir; lopinavir and ritonavir plus interferon beta; and the antimalarial drug chloroquine.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Although that drug is almost always introduced in news articles (including this one) as an antimalarial, it’s not widely used as such.
    Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Take hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that appeared promising in the early stages of the pandemic.
    Sara Harrison, Wired, 8 July 2020
  • Registry records show that researchers in China have applied to test more than 10 drugs on virus patients, including the antimalarial chloroquine, HIV antiretroviral darunavir and several flu medicines.
    WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Chloroquine phosphate has been manufactured as an antimalarial treatment since the late 1940s.
    Lev Facher, STAT, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The study is the first randomized clinical trial that tested the antimalarial drug, touted by President Donald Trump, as a preventive measure.
    Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2020
  • Even then, research interest was circling around the decades-old antimalarial drugs chloroquine and its cousin, hydroxychloroquine.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 May 2020
  • Treatment includes taking antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine or atovaquone and proguanil, depending on where the infection was thought to have originated.
    Time, 27 June 2023

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