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Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / World Health Organization. - 2nd ed. - Geneva : World Health Organization, c2010. - xi, 194 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Executive summary contains : 1. Recommendations unchanged from the first edition of the Guidelines (2006) and 2. Additional recommendations in the second edition of the Guidelines (2010)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9789241547925 (pbk.) 9241547928 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010517039

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101528516 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Malaria--Chemotherapy.
Antimalarials.
Malaria--Diagnosis.
Malaria--drug therapy--Guideline.
Antimalarials--standards--Guideline.
Antimalarials--therapeutic use--Guideline.
Malaria--diagnosis--Guideline.

LC Class. No.: RC159.A5 / G85 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 616.9362

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 D-497 WC 770 / G94651 2010