Collection of samples for artemisinin pharmacology analysis

The purpose of this document is to standardize the sample collection procedure during clinical studies of artemisinin antimalarial drugs. This should be considered as a recommendation or as a definition of minimum requirements, created by WWARN, aiming to achieve homogeneous quality in the pre-analytical phase of studies and to provide guidelines in the processes of collection, processing, preserving, storage, shipment and safe handling of samples from human origin.