Publisher's Synopsis
Provides model prescribing information for 33 essential drugs used for the prevention and treatment of protozoal and helminthic infections, including filarial infections, the leishmaniases, malaria, schistonsomiasis and the trypanosomiases. The book is the product of a consultative process involving internationally accredited experts, WHO's Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Evaluation, selected members of the various WHO expert advisory panels on parasitic diseases, and several nongovernmental organizations in official relations with WHO. The book is organized according to diseases, moving fron amoebiasis and giardiasis to intestinal, liver and lung flakes.
