A peek behind the paper – Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets on turning Plasmodium survival strategies against itself

Speaking with Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets (University of Barcelona, Spain) on his editorial article published in Future Medicinal Chemistry entitled: 'Turning Plasmodium survival strategies against itself' including the challenges and updates on the work and the role that nanomedicine plays in the future of antimalarial therapeutics.  Can you give us a short summary of your recent editorial ‘Turning Plasmodium survival strategies against itself’? The malaria parasite has revealed itself as an elusive target for the classical therapeutic and prophylactic approaches that offer reasonably good results in the control of bacterial infections using antibiotics and vaccines. Currently, the pathogen can evolve to be...