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Fighting malaria as a patient and scientist

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Fitsum Tadesse was infected with malaria as a young child in Ethiopia and faced challenges to access efficacious treatment during a time of widespread drug resistance. Today, as a scientist in Africa, the fight against Plasmodium falciparum is his prime research goal.

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  1. Malaria and NTD Division, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Fitsum Girma Tadesse

  2. Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Fitsum Girma Tadesse

  3. Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Fitsum Girma Tadesse

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Tadesse, F.G. Fighting malaria as a patient and scientist. Nat Microbiol 10, 1793–1794 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02052-1

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