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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Staines, Henry M. (Editor), Krishna, Sanjeev (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Drug resistance.; Parasitology.; Pharmacology.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Infectious Diseases.; Drug Resistance.

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...