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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459909603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76086-6

9786612760860

92-4-068540-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Nonseral Publication

Disciplina

616.9362

Soggetti

Malaria - Chemotherapy

Antimalarials

Malaria - Diagnosis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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