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.

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MALARIA -- CHEMOTHERAPY

RA 644 .A38 1984