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Autore: | Schlagenhauf-Lawlor Patricia |
Titolo: | Travelers' Malaria [[electronic resource] /] / Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor [editor] |
Pubblicazione: | Hamilton, Ont., : BC Decker Inc., c2008 |
Edizione: | [2nd ed.]. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina: | 614.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Malaria |
Malaria - Prevention | |
Travel - Health aspects | |
Altri autori: | Schlagenhauf-LawlorPatricia |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibilographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Title and Front matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the First Edition""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Contents""; ""1. Travelers Malaria: People and Plasmodia: Some Historic Perspectives""; ""2. Global Epidemiology of Malaria""; ""3. Geographical Distribution at Traveler Destinations""; ""4. Evidence of Malaria Exposure in Travelers""; ""5. Network Surveillance of Malaria in Travelers""; ""6. The Parasite""; ""7. Malaria Drug Resistance""; ""8. The Vector and Measures against Mosquito Bites"" |
""9. Strategies of Malaria Prevention in Nonimmune Visitors to Endemic Countries""""10. Drugs Used for Malaria Chemoprophylaxis""; ""10.1 Chloroquine and Combinations""; ""10.2 Hydroxychloroquine""; ""10.3 Azithromycin""; ""10.4 Mefloquine""; ""10.5 Doxycyline""; ""10.6 Primaquine""; ""10.7 Atovaquone-Proguanil""; ""10.8 Tafenoquine""; ""11. Malaria Prevention for Particular Travelers""; ""11.1 Long-Term Travelers""; ""11.2 Brief Exposure Malaria Prevention""; ""11.3 Military Perspectives for Malaria Prevention""; ""11.4 Migrants"" | |
""11.5 Special Groups: Pregnant Women, Infants, and Young Children""""11.6 Immunocompromised Travelers""; ""12. Plasmodium Vivax Malaria: Prevention and Treatment""; ""13. Determination of Antimalarial Drug Levels in Body Fluids""; ""14. Clinical Features of Malaria in Travelers and Migrants""; ""15. Diagnosis of Malaria in Returned Travelers""; ""16. Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests for and by Travelers""; ""17. Management of Malaria in Returned Travelers""; ""18. Stand-by Emergency Self-Treatment of Malaria by Travelers""; ""19. Malaria Deaths in Travelers"" | |
""20. Counterfeit and Substandard Antimalarial Drugs""""21. Odyssean and Non-Mosquito-Transmitted Forms of Malaria""; ""22. The Changing Geography of Malaria""; ""23. Malaria Risk for Travelers to Southern Africa""; ""24. Prospects for a Travelers� Malaria Vaccine""; ""25. Imported Malaria""; ""26. Closing the Circle: Compliance and Adherence""; ""Appendix 1""; ""Appendix 2""; ""Index"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Travelers' Malaria |
ISBN: | 1-60795-135-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791421603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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