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Guidelines for the treatment of malaria

Title
Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / World Health Organization.
Publication
Geneva : World Health Organization, ©2010.

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World Health Organization.
Description
xi, 194 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Malaria case management remains a vital component of the malaria control strategies. This entails early diagnosis and prompt treatment with effective antimalarial medicines. The WHO Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which were first published in 2006, provide global, evidence-based recommendations on the case management of malaria, targeted mainly at policy-makers at country level, providing a framework for the development of specific and more detailed national treatment protocols that take into account local antimalarial drug resistance patterns and health service capacity in the country. This second edition of the guidelines revisits the recommendations based on updated evidence. The same presentation format from the first edition has been mainly kept based on feedback from the end-users."--Page ix.
Uniform Title
Guidelines for the treatment of malaria (World Health Organization)
Subject
  • Malaria > Chemotherapy
  • Antimalarials
  • Malaria > Diagnosis
  • Malaria > drug therapy
  • Antimalarials > therapeutic use
  • Antimalarials > standards
  • Malaria > diagnosis
  • Antimalarials
  • Malaria
  • Pharmakotherapie
  • Antimalariamittel
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
LCCN
  • 2010517039
  • 99940255856
OCLC
  • ocn606590423
  • 606590423
  • SCSB-1550360
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library