1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450418203321

Titolo

Guidelines for the treatment of malaria [[electronic resource] /] / World Health Organization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2006

ISBN

1-281-74404-2

9786611744045

1-4237-9009-X

92-4-068058-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Disciplina

616.9/36206

616.9362

Soggetti

Malaria - Chemotherapy

Antimalarials

Malaria - Diagnosis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The clinical disease; 3 Treatment objectives; 4 Diagnosis of malaria; 5 Resistance to antimalarial medicines; 6 Antimalarial treatment policy; 7 Treatment of uncomplicated P falciparum malaria; 8 Treatment of severe falciparum malaria; 9 Treatment of malaria caused by P vivax P ovale or P malariae; 10 Mixed malaria infections; 11 Complex emergencies and epidemics; Annex 1. The guidelines development process; Annex 2. Adaptation of WHO malaria treatment guidelines for use in countries; Annex 3. Pharmacology of antimalarial drugs

Annex 4. Antimalarials and malaria transmissionAnnex 5. Malaria diagnosis; Annex 6. Resistance to antimalarials; Annex 7. Uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria; Annex 8. Malaria treatment and HIV/AIDS; Annex 9. Treatment of severe P. falciparum malaria; Annex 10. Treatment of P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae infections; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Malaria is an important cause of death and illness in children and adults in tropical countries. Mortality, currently estimated at over a



million people per year, has risen in recent years, probably due to increasing resistance to antimalarial medicines. Malaria control requires an integrated approach comprising prevention including vector control and treatment with effective antimalarials.The affordable and widely available antimalarial chloroquine which was in the past a mainstay of malaria control is now ineffective in most falciparum malaria endemic areas, and resistance to sulfadoxine-pyr

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142659903321

Titolo

29th International Conference on Software Engineering : ICSE 2007 : proceedings : 20-26 May 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society, 2007

ISBN

9781509090600

1509090606

Collana

ACM Conferences

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Software engineering

Computer programming

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph