Effect of selected local medicinal plants on the asexual blood stage of chloroquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum

Abstract

The extracts belonging to eleven plant species were able to perturb the growth of chloroquine resistant P. falciparum effectively. The findings justified the bioassay guided fractionation on these plants for the search of potent antimalarial compounds or formulation of standardized extracts which may enhance the antimalarial effect in vitro and in vivo.