Antimalarial Drugs

Age of the Artemisinins

Qigui Li, Peter J Weina (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

657 Seiten

2013
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-62948-013-8 (ISBN)

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Anti-malarial drugs are medicines that prevent or treat malaria, a disease which takes a great toll on human health and well-being, particularly in tropical regions including Africa south of the Sahara, South and Southeast Asia, Oceania, and parts of the Americas. In recent years, strains of Plasmodium have become increasingly resistant to more anti-malarial drugs and researchers have stepped up efforts to revise anti-malarial drug policies and develop new anti-malarial strategies. Resistance has arisen to all classes of antimalarials (chloroquine, amodiaquine, mefloquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine) except, as yet, definitively to the artemisinin derivatives. In order to prevent widespread resistance, the concept of anti-malarial combination therapy (CT) has been employed and a global resistance surveillance system (World Anti-malarial Resistance Networks) has been established. This book explores the use of these drugs in current health care.

Preface; Current Status & Policies of Anti-malarial Drugs; Anti-malarial Drug Cost & Cost-effectiveness; Efficacy & Treatment of Anti-malarial Drugs; Anti-malarial Drugs in Chemoprophylaxis; Influences on Anti-malarial Drug Efficacy; Toxicity of Anti-malarial Drugs; Anti-malarial Drug Toxicity; Anti-malarial Drugs Withdrawn & in the Pipeline; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2013
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 260 mm
Gewicht	1188 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	1-62948-013-4 / 1629480134
ISBN-13	978-1-62948-013-8 / 9781629480138
Zustand	Neuware