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Title Guidelines for the treatment of malaria.

Imprint Geneva : World Health Organization, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  616.936206 G941t 2006    ---  Available
Description viii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The clinical disease -- Treatment objectives -- Diagnosis of malaria -- Resistance to antimalarial medicines -- Antimalarial treatment policy -- 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.
Summary "The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensible, global, evidence-based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups (young children, pregnant women, people who are HIV positive, travellers from non-malaria endemic regions) and in complex emergency situations and severe malaria."--Publisher's description.
Form Available both in print and online.
Subject Antimalarials -- standards -- Guideline.
Antimalarials -- therapeutic use -- Guideline.
Malaria -- diagnosis -- Guideline.
Malaria -- Chemotherapy.
Antimalarials.
Malaria -- Diagnosis.
Added Author World Health Organization.
ISBN 9241546948
9789241546942
Standard No. NLM 101308640
NLGGC 295862246
NZ1 10828479

 
    
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