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Author Organization, World Health

Title Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria
Edition 2nd ed
Published Geneva : World Health Organization, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Series Nonseral Publication
Nonseral Publication
Contents COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; GLOSSARY; ABBREVIATIONS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. CLINICAL DISEASE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; 3. OBJECTIVES OF TREATMENT; 4. RESISTANCE TO ANTIMALARIAL MEDICINES; 5. ANTIMALARIAL TREATMENT POLICY; 6. DIAGNOSIS OF MALARIA; 7. TREATMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED P. FALCIPARUM MALARIA; 8. TREATMENT OF SEVERE P. FALCIPARUM MALARIA; 9. TREATMENT OF MALARIA CAUSED BY P. VIVAX, P. OVALE OR P. MALARIAE; 11. COMPLEX EMERGENCIES AND EPIDEMICS; 12. CASE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXTOF MALARIA ELIMINATION; 13. MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIST OF ANNEXES; INDEX
Summary Malaria control requires an integrated approach, including prevention (primarily vector control) and prompt treatment with effective antimalarials. Since the publication of the first edition of these Guidelinesin 2006, most of the countries where P. Falciparum is endemic have progressively updated treatment policies from the failing chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine to the recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs); this is the best current treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. Unfortunately, the implementation of these policies has lagged behind due to vario
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Malaria -- Chemotherapy.
Antimalarials -- Diagnosis
Malaria.
Therapeutics.
Antiprotozoal agents.
Protozoan diseases.
Antimalarials.
Chemotherapy.
Diagnosis.
Antiparasitic agents.
Parasitic diseases.
Diseases.
Anti-infective agents.
Therapeutics
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Publication Formats
Antiprotozoal Agents
Protozoan Infections
Malaria
Antimalarials
Guideline
Drug Therapy
Diagnosis
Antiparasitic Agents
Publication Characteristics
Parasitic Diseases
Disease
Anti-Infective Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Chemical Actions and Uses
Chemicals and Drugs
diagnosis.
illness.
disease.
treating (health care function)
Therapeutics
Protozoan diseases
Parasitic diseases
Diseases
Diagnosis
Chemotherapy
Antiprotozoal agents
Antiparasitic agents
Antimalarials
Anti-infective agents
Malaria
Malaria -- Chemotherapy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789240685406
9240685405
9241547928
9789241547925
1282760866
9781282760868
9786612760860
6612760869