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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel :
Springer Basel : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | Milestones in Drug Therapy,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.