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Treatment and prevention of malaria
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Treatment and prevention of malaria book
Treatment and prevention of malaria
DOI link for Treatment and prevention of malaria
Treatment and prevention of malaria book
ByDavid A Warrell, William M Watkins, Peter A Winstanley
Edition 4th Edition
First Published 2002
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 45
eBook ISBN 9780203756621
ABSTRACT
Antimalarial drugs have selective actions on the different phases of the parasite life cycle. Causal prophylactic drugs prevent the establishment of the parasite in the liver and blood schizontocidal drugs attack the parasite in the red blood cell, preventing or terminating the clinical attack.