Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / / World Health Organization

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : World Health Organization, c2010
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.9362
• Soggetto topico: Malaria - Chemotherapy; Antimalarials; Malaria - Diagnosis; Malaria - drug therapy; Antimalarials - therapeutic use; Antimalarials - standards; Malaria - diagnosis
• Soggetto genere / forma: Guideline
• 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: Introduction -- Clinical disease and epidemiology -- Objectives of treatment -- Resistance to antimalarial medicines -- Antimalarial treatment policy -- Diagnosis of malaria -- Treatment of uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria -- Treatment of severe falciparum malaria -- Treatment of malaria caused by P. vivax, P. ovale or P. malariae -- Mixed malaria infections -- Complex emergencies and epidemics -- Case management in the context of malaria elimination -- Mass drug administration.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Malaria case management remains a vital component of the malaria control strategies. This entails early diagnosis and prompt treatment with effective antimalarial medicines. The WHO Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which were first published in 2006, provide global, evidence-based recommendations on the case management of malaria, targeted mainly at policy-makers at country level, providing a framework for the development of specific and more detailed national treatment protocols that take into account local antimalarial drug resistance patterns and health service capacity in the country. This second edition of the guidelines revisits the recommendations based on updated evidence. The same presentation format from the first edition has been mainly kept based on feedback from the end-users."--Page ix.
• Titolo autorizzato: Guidelines for the treatment of malaria
• ISBN: 1-282-76086-6; 9786612760860; 92-4-068540-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966869203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nonseral Publication