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Humans have changed the selective landscape of Plasmodium, the infectious agent that causes malaria, by developing drugs that kill this parasite. To which drugs have resistant strains of Plasmodium been identified?

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Answer:

  1. Doxycycline
  2. Drugs in the quinine family
  3. Artemesins

Step-by-step explanation:

Malaria, a mosquito-borne illness that is life-threatening due to the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, affects more than 200 million people worldwide every year. Several medications are used in the procedure like artemisinin, doxycycline and quinine.

All three drugs artemisinin, doxycycline and quinine carry resistant strains of P. falciparum which prevents malaria.

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