Antimalarial drugs
Subtitle: costs, safety and efficacy
By: Emanuel Csizmadia and Istvan Kalnoky, editors
Series: Tropical diseases - etiology, pathogenesis and treatments series; Tropical diseases-- etiology, pathogenesis, and treatments series
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781607414322
Description: "Malaria is the leading parasitic infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in terms of morbidity, hospitalization and mortality. Pregnant women and children under the age of five years, especially infants, are the most vulnerable. In SSA where 90% of the global burden of malaria is concentrated, at least one child dies of malaria every 40 seconds. Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) describes the administration of a full course of antimalarial drugs to the population at risk at specified time intervals, irrespective of whether or not one is infected. Drug resistance, especially multidrug resistance, and difficulties in eradicating the mosquito vector have been the basis of malaria resurgence over the past 30 years. In addition, massive problems with logistics, planning, allocation of resources and a lack of operational research have contributed greatly to the failure of malaria eradication. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in this field."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Efficacy, safety and costs of intermittent presumptive treatment for malaria in Tanzania : beliefs, attitudes, experiences, and views of service providers and users / Godfrey Martin Mubyazi ... [et al.]; title: A potential therapeutic strategy for malaria : reversal of quinoline resistance / L.M. Elandaloussi and P.J. Smith; title: Acceptability of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) for malaria in infants (IPTi) in Tanzania : lessons to learn from IPT in pregnancy (IPTp) in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts / Godfrey M. Mubyazi ... [et al.]; title: Implementing intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy : review of prospects, achievements, challenges and agenda for research / Godfrey Martin Mubyazi ... [et al.]; title: Sfc-Ms analysis of contaminants in primaquine diphosphate tablets and spectral Uv and Nmr characterising of primaquine and quinocide / Ilia Brondz; title: Artemisia annua : a program of local production for treatment of malaria in the poorest countries / M. Onimus, J. M. Vouillot and G. Clerc; title: Quinine toxicity and cinchonism / Viroj Wiwanitkit; title: Antimalarial peroxides : from artemisinin to synthetic peroxides / Jernej Iskra; title: Antimalarial resistance and treatment of malaria in clinical practice in Thailand : an update / Viroj Wiwanitkit; title: Biochemoinformatics technology and antimalarial drug : a useful of "omics" technology / Viroj Wiwanitkit.