1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003343910203316

Autore

PAREIGIS, Bodo

Titolo

Categories and functors / Bodo Pareigis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Academic Press, 1970

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Pure and applied mathematics : a series of monographs and textbooks ; 39

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Matematica

Collocazione

510 PAM 39 (A)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783717903321

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.)

Classificazione

44.75

Disciplina

616.9/36206

616.9362

Soggetti

Malaria - Chemotherapy

Antimalarials

Malaria - Diagnosis

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