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Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / World Health Organization.

Title
Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / World Health Organization.
Publication
Geneva : World Health Organization, c2010.

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Additional Authors
World Health Organization.
Description
xi, 194 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Guideline.
Note
  • Executive summary contains : 1. Reccomendations unchanged from the first edition of the Guidelines (2006) and 2. Additional recommendations in the second edition of the Guidelines (2010)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Clinical disease and epidemiology -- Objectives of treatment -- Resistance to antimalarial medicines -- Antimalarial treatment policy -- Diagnosis of malaria -- Treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria -- Treatment of severe falciparum malaria -- Treatment of malaria caused by P. vivax, P. ovale or P. malariae -- Mixed malaria infections -- Complex emergencies and epidemics -- Case management in the context of malaria elimination -- Mass drug administration.
ISBN
  • 9789241547925
  • 9241547928
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries