Artemisinin-A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture).
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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.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Angewandte Chemie
دوره 55 35 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016