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. 2015 Dec;31(12):607-610.
doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.10.010.

A Brief History of Qinghaosu

Nicholas J White  1 , Tran T Hien  2 , François H Nosten  3
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A Brief History of Qinghaosu

Nicholas J White et al. Trends Parasitol. 2015 Dec.

Abstract

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was awarded to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discovery of avermectins, and to Tu You You for her contribution to the discovery of artemisinin. The discovery and development of qinghaosu (artemisinin) as an antimalarial drug is a remarkable and convoluted tale.

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The Remarkable First Publication in English Describing the Discovery and Development of Qinghaosu.
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