Treatment and Prevention of Malaria Antimalarial Drug Chemistry, Action and Use /

Malaria has defeated previous efforts at eradication and remains a massive global public health problem despite being readily preventable and treatable. It is a devastating disease that also extracts huge economic costs from the poorest countries in endemic regions.   Starting with an overview of th...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Staines, Henry M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Krishna, Sanjeev (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Σειρά:Milestones in Drug Therapy
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Antimalarial drugs and the control and elimination of malaria -- 4-Aminoquinolines: chloroquine, amodiaquine and next generation analogues -- Cinchona alkaloids: quinine and quinidine -- 8-Aminoquinolines: primaquine and tafenoquine -- Other 4-methanolquinolines, amyl alcohols and phentathrenes: mefloquine, lumefantrine, halofantrine, piperaquine and pyronaridine -- Antifolates: pyrimethamine, proguanil, sulphadoxine and dapsone -- Naphthoquinones: atovaquone, and other antimalarials targeting mitochondrial functions -- Non-antifolate antibiotics: clindamycin, doxycycline, azithromycin and fosmidomycin -- Artemisinins: artemisinin, dihydroartemisinin, artemether, arteether and artesunate -- Second generation peroxides: the OZs and artemisone -- Combination therapy in light of emerging artemisinin resistance -- New medicines to combat malaria: an overview of the global pipeline of therapeutics -- Molecular markers of Plasmodium resistance to antimalarials -- Prevention of malaria -- Malaria diagnostics: lighting the path. 
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