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cinchonaAny of a group of tropical American shrubs or trees belonging to the madder family. The drug quinine is produced from the bark of some species, and these are now cultivated in India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Indonesia. (Genus Chinchona, family Rubiaceae.) |
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| In 1948, he was invited to Guatemala to a plantation, where Cinchona trees were dying. The cure, however, came from the foothills of the high Andes, in the bark of the cinchona trees. What is clear is that quinine, the active anti-malarial alkaloid in the bark of the South American cinchona tree soon became the only known treatment for the disease caused by the as-yet undiscovered Plasmodium falciparum parasite. |
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