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Plasmodium species (Malaria)
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Plasmodium species (Malaria)
Prevention of Malaria in Travelers
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Plasmodium species (Malaria)
Table 1. Currently Available Antimalarial Drugs
Table 2. Dosing Schedule for Artesunate plus Amodiaquine
Table 3. Dosing Schedule for Artesunate plus Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine
Table 4.
Dosing Schedule for Artemether-Lumefantrine
Table 5. Dosing Schedule for Artesunate plus
Mefloquine
Table 6. Recommendations on the Treatment of Falciparum Malaria in
Non-immune Travellers
Table 7. Antimalarial Treatment of Severe Malaria
Table 8. Treatment of Uncomplicated Vivax and Ovale Malaria.
Table 9. Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy
Table 10. Management of Falciparum Malaria in
Neonates
Table 11.
Recent WHO Definitions of Treatment Failure
Table 12. Overview
of WHO Criteria for Signs of Severity
Prevention of Malaria in Travelers
Table 1:
Recommended Prophylactic Regimens according to Chloroquine Resistance Patterns
and Sites of Action
Table 2:
Recommendations for Travelers to Malaria Risk Countries in the Americas and
the Caribbean
Table 3:
Recommendations for Traveler’s to Malaria Risk Countries in Africa
Table 4:
Recommendations for Traveler’s to Malaria Risk Countries in Eastern Europe and
the Independent States of the former Soviet Union
Table 5:
Recommendations for Traveler’s to Malaria Risk Countries in Asia (Including
the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia)
Table 6:
Recommendations for Traveler’s to Malaria Risk Countries in Oceania (Australia
and the South Pacific Islands)
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Authors
Nicholas J. White, M.D.,
Arjen M. Dondorp, M.D.,
Daniel H. Paris, MD,
Carlos Franco-Paredes, M.D., MPH,
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