How to Use antimalarial in a Sentence

antimalarial

adjective
  • Tu followed a hunch about how to extract an antimalarial compound from the qinghao or artemisia plant.
    — Maggie Villiger, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Gerwick now has funding to explore carmaphycin B as a new antimalarial drug.
    — Stephanie Stone, Scientific American, 23 July 2022
  • The two have also been at odds over the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, to treat patients with the coronavirus.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 9 July 2020
  • Since her discovery of artemisinin in the 1970s, antimalarial drugs based on the substance have saved millions of lives.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Some of the patients also received antibiotics that are thought to enhance the benefit of the antimalarial drugs.
    — John Lauerman, Bloomberg.com, 29 May 2020
  • The antimalarial drug was briefly touted as a possible treatment for the novel coronavirus at a time when little else was available.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There are prescription antimalarial drugs but, if not treated quickly, the disease can be life-threatening.
    — Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Although that drug is almost always introduced in news articles (including this one) as an antimalarial, it’s not widely used as such.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The field has remarkable potential and has already been used to aid the production of antimalarial drugs and synthetic flavorings.
    — Robert Hart, Slate Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Even then, research interest was circling around the decades-old antimalarial drugs chloroquine and its cousin, hydroxychloroquine.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 May 2020
  • Take hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that appeared promising in the early stages of the pandemic.
    — Sara Harrison, Wired, 8 July 2020
  • One way to prevent such cross-species jumps would be to insert the antimalarial genes not into a symbiotic microbe, but directly into the genomes of the mosquitoes themselves.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug that is used for some rheumatic conditions, such as systemic lupus, and for some less-common types of hair loss (called scarring alopecias).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Treatment includes taking antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine or atovaquone and proguanil, depending on where the infection was thought to have originated.
    — Time, 27 June 2023
  • But even after treating hundreds of patients with the antimalarial drug, the doctors interviewed did not report clear results or remarkable recoveries that can be traced to the drug.
    — Katie Thomas, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • San Antonio researchers have developed a new way to produce an antimalarial drug that could save thousands of lives from one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • Chloroquine phosphate has been manufactured as an antimalarial treatment since the late 1940s.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 19 Mar. 2020
  • India, the world’s biggest maker of generic drugs, has done the same with hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that some suggest (with little evidence) might treat covid-19.
    — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But like other pathogens, the CDC says certain strains are becoming resistant to the first line of defense drugs – chloroquine – and other common antimalarial drugs.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • And antimalarial drugs and other tools have long helped offset the burden of malaria, said Birkett, so the vaccine wasn’t a priority in the same sense compared to Covid-19.
    — Pratik Pawar, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • On his website, Nevin also highlights his ability to serve as an expert witness and consultant in legal cases that involve adverse effects from certain antimalarial drugs.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The study, published Friday in the medical journal the Lancet, is the largest analysis to date of the risks and benefits of treating covid-19 patients with antimalarial drugs.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2020
  • Amodiaquine was first synthesized in the mid-1940s, at a time when scientists were making artificial versions of the antimalarial compound quinine, which is found in the bark of the cinchona tree.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Infants receive a full dose of a standard antimalarial medication, such as sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, during their routine vaccination checkups.
    — Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Novartis runs a program called SMS for Life, which helps village clinics use mobile phones to report when their supplies of antimalarial medicines are running low and need to be replenished.
    — Vas Narasimhan, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The 40-year-old Stockton, California, woman was told the decades-old antimalarial drug commonly prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis was in short supply.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Researchers have engineered microbes to produce lifesaving drugs such as artemisinin, an antimalarial compound, and to manufacture sustainable biofuels that could reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
    — André O. Hudson, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The drugs to be tested are the antiviral drug remdesivir; a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir; lopinavir and ritonavir plus interferon beta; and the antimalarial drug chloroquine.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Registry records show that researchers in China have applied to test more than 10 drugs on virus patients, including the antimalarial chloroquine, HIV antiretroviral darunavir and several flu medicines.
    — WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020

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