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Spread and emergence of antimalarial drug resistance are the major challenge in malaria control. Medicinal plants are the key source of new effective antimalarial agents. <jats:italic>Cordia africana<\/jats:italic> (Lam.) is widely used for traditional management of malaria by local people in different parts of Ethiopia. The present study aimed to evaluate <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic> antimalarial effects of leaf extracts and solvent fractions of <jats:italic>Cordia africana<\/jats:italic> on <jats:italic>Plasmodium berghei<\/jats:italic>-infected mice. <jats:italic>Methods<\/jats:italic>. The leaf extracts were prepared and tested for oral acute toxicity according to the OECD guideline. <jats:italic>In vivo<\/jats:italic> antimalarial effects of various doses of <jats:italic>C. africana<\/jats:italic> extracts and solvent fractions were determined using the four-day suppression test (both crude and fractions), as well as curative and chemoprophylactic tests (crude extracts). <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>. The acute toxicity test of the plant extract revealed that the medium lethal dose is higher than 2000\u2009mg\/kg. The crude extract of the plant exhibited significant parasitemia suppression in the four-day suppression (51.19%), curative (57.14%), and prophylactic (46.48%) tests at 600\u2009mg\/kg. The <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>-butanol fraction exhibited the highest chemosuppression (55.62%) at 400\u2009mg\/kg, followed by the chloroform fraction (45.04%) at the same dose. <jats:italic>Conclusion<\/jats:italic>. Our findings indicated that both the crude leaf extracts and fractions of <jats:italic>C. africana<\/jats:italic> possess antimalarial effects, supporting the traditional claim of the plant.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2019\/8324596","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,18]],"date-time":"2019-08-18T19:31:17Z","timestamp":1566156677000},"page":"1-14","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Antimalarial Activity of <i>Cordia africana<\/i> (Lam.) 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