Publications

RITAM Book

- Willcox ML, Bodeker G, Rasoanaivo P (2004).Traditional Medicinal Plants and Malaria. Boca Raton: CRCPress.

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Other Publications

Traditional Fever remedies: a list of Zambian plants, D.G.Fowler

Journal articles

Bodeker G, Willcox ML, Flohr C, Ong C (1998).The Therapeutic potential of plants used traditionally as antimalarials; new directions for research. In: Health in the Commonwealth 1998/9. London: Commonwealth Secretariat.

Bodeker G, Willcox ML (2000). Conference Report:The First International Meeting of the Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods (RITAM). J Alt Comp Med6(2): 195-207.
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2000.6.195

Bodeker G, Willcox ML (2000). New Research Initiative on plant-based antimalarials. Lancet 355: 761.

Bodeker G. 2000. Searching for Antimalarials in Plants, J. Altern Complement. Med.6(2):127-9.

Bodeker G & Willcox M. 2001. Iniziativadi ricerca sui metodi antimalarici tradizionale (RITAM, Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods), Natural 1,1,2, 22-23, Milano.

B. Graz, D. Diallo, J. Falquet, M. Willcox,S. Giani (2005). Screening of traditional herbal medicine:First, do a retrospective study, with correlation between diverse treatments used and reported patient outcome. J Ethnopharm101 (1-3): 338-339 [pdf]

Willcox ML, Bodeker G (2004). Traditional HerbalMedicines for Malaria. British Medical Journal 329 (7475):1156-9. [pdf]

Willcox ML, Rasoanaivo P, Sharma VP, BodekerG (2004). Comment on: Randomized controlled trial of a traditionalpreparation of Artemisia annua L. (Annual Wormwood) in the treatment of malaria. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 98 (12): 755-6.

Willcox ML, Cosentino MJ, Pink R, Bodeker G,Wayling S (2001). Natural Products for the Treatment of TropicalDiseases. Trends in Parasitology 17 (2): 58-9.

Willcox ML, Bodeker G (2000). Plant-based MalariaControl: Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods.Parasitology Today 16(6): 220-221.

Willcox ML (1999). A Clinical trial of ‘AM’,a Ugandan herbal remedy for malaria. Journal of Public Health Medicine 21(3): 318-324.

Merlin L Willcox, Shelly Burton, Rosalia Oyweka, Rehema Namyalo, Simon Challand and Keith Lindsey. Evaluation and pharmacovigilance of projects promoting cultivation and local use of Artemisia annua for malaria. http://www.malariajournal.com/content/10/1/84