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A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola

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Title
A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, August 2011
DOI 10.1590/s0074-02762011000900019
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Jefferson Rocha de A Silva, Aline de S Ramos, Marta Machado, Dominique F de Moura, Zoraima Neto, Marilene M Canto-Cavalheiro, Paula Figueiredo, Virgilio E do Rosário, Ana Claudia F Amaral, Dinora Lopes

Abstract

The isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, based on traditional use or ethnomedical data, is a highly promising potential approach for identifying new and effective antimalarial drug candidates. The purpose of this review was to create a compilation of the phytochemical studies on medicinal plants used to treat malaria in traditional medicine from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPSC): Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. In addition, this review aimed to show that there are several medicinal plants popularly used in these countries for which few scientific studies are available. The primary approach compared the antimalarial activity of native species used in each country with its extracts, fractions and isolated substances. In this context, data shown here could be a tool to help researchers from these regions establish a scientific and technical network on the subject for the CPSC where malaria is a public health problem.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
Pakistan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 112 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 14%
Student > Bachelor 16 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 13%
Student > Postgraduate 9 8%
Researcher 9 8%
Other 21 18%
Unknown 30 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 16%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 18 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 12%
Chemistry 13 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 32 28%
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