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The Antimicrobial Action of Artemisinin Is Not Well Understood but This

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The antimicrobial action of artemisinin is not well understood but this chemical appears to


A) swell the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuoles.
B) form reactive oxygen intermediates inside Plasmodium-infected red blood cells.
C) inhibit heme polymerase,an enzyme that converts toxic heme into nontoxic hemazoin.
D) raise the internal pH,clump the plasmodial pigment,and intercalate into plasmodial DNA.

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