Essential Malariology

This concise text provides an overview of the wide-ranging field of malariology. It includes readable introductory chapters on the basic sciences; practical information on the diagnosis and clinical manifestations of malaria in various patient groups (including children, pregnant women,adults); a comprehensive guide to pharmacology and treatment of malaria, and a review of the current status in malaria vaccine development.

Preface

vii

Contributors

ix

Historical outline

1

(7)

Herbert M Gilles

The malaria parasites

8

(27)

Robert E Sinden

Herbert M Gilles

Diagnostic methods in malaria

35

(24)

Marcel Hommel

The Anopheles vector

59

(26)

Mike W Service

Harold Townson

The epidemiology of malaria

85

(22)

Robert W Snow

Herbert M Gilles

Rationale and technique of malaria control

107

(84)

Peter F Beales

Herbert M Gilles

Clinical features of malaria

191

(15)

David A Warrell

Clinical features of malaria in children

206

(13)

Terrie E Taylor

Malcolm E Molyneux

Clinical features of Malaria in pregnancy

219

(17)

Caroline Shulman

Edgar Dorman

Pathology and pathophysiology of human malaria

236

(16)

David A Warrell

Gareth DH Turner

Nick Francis

Immunology of malaria

252

(16)

Kevin Marsh

Treatment and prevention of malaria

268

(45)

David A Warrell

William M Watkins

Peter A Winstanley

Malaria vaccines

313

(13)

Stephen L Hoffman

Judith E Epstein

Appendix: Characteristics of some major Anopheles vectors of human malaria

326

(7)

Mike W Service

Index

333

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Essential Malariology

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