1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000039620403321

Autore

COSPAR PLENARY MEETING, 23., Budapest, 1980

Titolo

First FGGE results from satellites : proceedings of symposium 4. of the COSPAR twenty-third plenary meeting held inBudapest, 2-14 June 1980 : symposium on system and early results of the global observing system for FGGE / edited by T. Tanczer , G. Gotz and G. Major

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1981

ISBN

0-08-027160-X

Descrizione fisica

VII, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Advances in space research ; Vol. 1. n. 4.

Disciplina

551.635 4

Locazione

FINBC

Collocazione

13 G 31 04

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911091370403321

Titolo

Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / / 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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