A systematic review on anti-malarial drug discovery and antiplasmodial potential of green synthesis mediated metal nanoparticles: overview, challenges and future perspectives

Table 1 Word groups used to screen relevant documents in the different electronic databases used

Nanoparticles-producing living organisms	Diseases or parasites	Word groups	Inputs and outcomes
Nanoparticles-producing living organisms	Diseases or parasites	Nature and type of synthesis of nanoparticles	Inputs and outcomes
‘Plant^a’ OR ‘Bacteria^a’ OR ‘Mushroom’ OR ‘Fungi^a’ OR ‘Worms’ OR ‘Helminths^a’ OR ‘Microorganism’ OR ‘Microbial^a’	‘Malaria^a’ OR ‘Plasmodium^a’ OR ‘Plasmodium falciparum^a’ OR ‘Plasmodium berghei^a’	‘Green synthesis^a’ OR ‘Biological synthesis^a’ OR ‘Biosynthesis’ OR ‘Plant-mediated’ OR ‘Metal-based’ OR ‘Nanoparticles^a’ OR ‘Metal nanoparticles^a’ OR ‘Biometallic nanoparticles^a’ OR ‘Gold nanoparticles’ OR ‘Silver nanoparticles’ OR ‘Copper nanoparticles’ OR ‘Platinum nanoparticles’ OR ‘Titanium’ OR ‘Palladium’	‘In vitro activity’ OR ‘In vitro potential’ OR ‘In vivo activity’ OR ‘In vivo potential’ OR ‘antimalarial activity’ OR ‘Antimalaria^a’ OR ‘Antiplasmodial^a activity’ OR ‘Effectiveness’ OR ‘Assessment’ OR ‘Effect’ OR ‘Properties’

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