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Research Article

Growth Inhibition of Asexual Erythrocytic Forms of Plasmodium falciparum and P. berghei in vitro by Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloid-Containing Extracts of Ancistrocladus and Triphyophyllum Species

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Pages 55-59 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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