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Piperaquine is an antiparasitic drug used in combination with dihydroartemisinin to treat malaria. Piperaquine was developed under the Chinese National Malaria Elimination Programme in the 1960s and was adopted throughout China as a replacement for the structurally similar antimalarial drug chloroquine. Due to widespread parasite resistance to piperaquine, the drug fell out of use as a monotherapy, and is instead used as a partner drug for artemisinin combination therapy. Piperaquine kills parasites by disrupting the detoxification of host heme.   Wikipedia

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1,3-bis(1-(7-chloro-4'-quinolyl)-4'-piperazinyl)propane | 1,3-bis(4-(7'-chloro-4'-quinoline)-1-piperazine) | dihydroartemisinin mixture with piperaquine tetraphosphate | piperaquine | piperaquine phosphate | piperaquine phosphate hydrate | piperaquine tetraphosphate | piperaquine tetraphosphate /artenimol | piperaquinoline | quinoline, 4,4'-(1,3-propanediyldi-4,1-piperazinediyl)bis(7-chloro-)

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