Guidelines for the treatment of malaria / World Health Organization - viii, 253 p. : 24 x 16 cm.

Glossary -- The clinical disease -- Treatment objectives -- Uncomplicated malaria -- Severe malaria -- Diagnosis of malaria -- Clinical diagnosis -- Parasitological diagnosis -- Where malaria transmission is low-moderate and/or unstable -- In stable high-transmissión settings -- Malaria parsie species identification In epidemics and complex emergencies -- Resistance to antimalarial medicines -- impact of resistance -- Global disribution of resistance -- Assessing resistance -- Antimalarial tratment policy -- Assessment of in vivo therapeutic efficacy -- Criteria for antimalarial treatment policy change -- Treatment of uncomplicated P. Falciparum malaria -- Assessment -- Antimalarial combination therapy -- The choice of artemisinin based combination therapy options -- Practical aspects of treatment with recommended ACTs -- incorrect approaches to treatment -- Additional aspects of clinical management -- Operational issues in treatment management -- Management of treatment failures -- Treatment in specific populations and situations -- Coexisting morbidities Treatment of severe falciparum malaria -- Treatment of malaria caused by P. vivax, P. ovale, or P. malariae Mixed Malaria infections -- complex emergencies and epidemics -- Annexes -- The guidelines Development process -- Adaptation of WHO malaria treatment guidelines for use in countries -- Pharmacology of antimalarial drugs -- Antimalarials and malaria transmissión -- Malaria diagnosis -- Resistance to antimalarials -- Uncomplicated P. faciparum malaria -- Malaria treatment and HIV/AIDS -- Treatment of severe P. faciparum malaria -- Treatment of P. vivax, P. ovale and P. malariae infections --

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Malaria--terapia de droga
Malaria--prevencion y control
Malaria--tratamiento
Medicina
Salud

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