Advances in malaria chemotherapy : report of a WHO Scientific Group.
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c1984
- 218 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- 1. Problems facing malaria control -- 2. Drug resistance in human pathogenic plasmodia -- 3. Use of antimalarial drugs -- 4. Recent progress in chemotherapeutic research -- 5. Recommendations.
This report provides advice on the use of drugs for the suppression and treatment of malaria taking into account the presence of drug-resistant parasites and on the best ways in which existing and new antimalarials may be used to counter the further development and spread of such resistance.