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doi: 10.1002/anie.201601967.
Epub 2016 Aug 4.
Artemisinin-A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture)
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Artemisinin-A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture)
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Abstract
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Artemisinin, the active substance against malaria, was first isolated and tested in the 1970s in China. The important role played by traditional Chinese medicine in the discovery of artemisinin is described by Y. Tu in her Nobel Lecture.
Keywords: artemisinin; malaria; traditional Chinese medicine.
© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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