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Control of Human Parasitic Diseases
1st Edition - February 13, 2007
Editor: David Molyneux
Paperback ISBN:9780120317653
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eBook ISBN:9780080462943
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Control of parasitic infections of humans has progressed rapidly over the last three decades. Such advances have resulted from focal disease control efforts based on historically effective interventions to new approaches to control following intensive research and pilot programs. Control of Human Parasitic Diseases focuses on the present state of control of the significant human parasitic infectious diseases.
Includes the impact of recent research findings on control strategy
Discusses the health policy implications of these findings and the importance of evaluation and monitoring
Highlights the lessons learned and the interactions between control programs and health systems
Researchers in parasitology, tropical medicine, entomology, zoology and veterinary science
Contributors to Volume 61
Foreword
Preface
Control of Human Parasitic Diseases: Context and Overview
ABSTRACT
1 CONTROL OF PARASITIC DISEASES
2 THE HEALTH POLICY ENVIRONMENT
3 PARASITIC DISEASES: NEW AND OLD CHALLENGES
4 CONCLUSIONS
Malaria Chemotherapy
ABSTRACT
1 THE PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS OF ANTIMALARIALS
2 DEVELOPING NEW ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS
3 THE USE OF ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS
4 CONCLUSIONS
Insecticide-Treated Nets
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 EFFICACY STUDIES
3 EFFECTIVENESS AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES
4 RISK ASSESSMENT
5 MONITORING AND IMPACT OF INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE
6 TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
7 EVOLUTION OF ITN POLICY
8 EVOLUTION OF ITN DELIVERY STRATEGIES
9 CONCLUSIONS AND NEEDS
Control of Chagas Disease
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE SOUTHERN CONE INITIATIVE
3 THE CENTRAL AMERICAN INITIATIVE
4 CHALLENGES IN CENTRAL AMERICA
5 CHAGAS DISEASE CONTROL INITIATIVES IN OTHER REGIONS
6 CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Human African Trypanosomiasis: Epidemiology and Control
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 DISEASE BURDEN AND DISTRIBUTION
3 THE VECTOR—TSETSE FLIES
4 TRYPANOSOMIASIS IN ANIMALS
5 DIAGNOSIS
6 TREATMENT
7 CONTROL
8 CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chemotherapy in the Treatment and Control of Leishmaniasis
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE CURRENT EPIDEMIOLOGIC SITUATION AND REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW CONTROL STRATEGIES
3 CURRENT DRUGS USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF LEISHMANIASIS
4 CONTROL OF LEISHMANIASIS—NEEDS
5 CONCLUSIONS
DISCLAIMER
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Dracunculiasis (Guinea Worm Disease) Eradication
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 LIFE CYCLE
3 DRACUNCULIASIS
4 EPIDEMIOLOGY
5 ERADICATION CAMPAIGN
Intervention for the Control of Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in the Community
ABSTRACT
1 POPULATION-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO CONTROL SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASIS
2 INTERVENTION PACKAGE
3 GROUPS AT RISK
4 FREQUENCY OF TREATMENT
5 TARGETS
6 DELIVERING THE INTERVENTION
7 IMPACT ON MORBIDITY
8 COST OF THE INTERVENTION
9 NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINING DEWORMING
10 SCALING UP DEWORMING FOR SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
11 QUESTIONS NEEDING ANSWERS
Control of Onchocerciasis
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE PARASITE LIFE CYCLE AND HUMAN DISEASE
3 GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PATTERNS
4 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
5 TREATMENT
6 VECTOR CONTROL APPROACHES TO ONCHOCERCIASIS
7 CONTROL THROUGH IVERMECTIN ADMINISTRATION
8 IVERMECTIN “RESISTANCE”
9 SURVEILLANCE
10 COST OF THE DISEASE AND COSTS OF THE PROGRAMMES
11 FUTURE CHALLENGES
12 MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES
Lymphatic Filariasis: Treatment, Control and Elimination
ABSTRACT
1 SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS
2 TURNING POTENTIAL INTO REALITY: THE GLOBAL PROGRAMME TO ELIMINATE LF
3 TREATING INDIVIDUALS WITH LF
4 THE FUTURE
Control of Cystic Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis: 1863–2002
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 HYDATID CONTROL PROGRAMMES LEADING TO ELIMINATION OR NEAR ELIMINATION OF E. GRANULOSUS
3 LESSONS LEARNED FROM ISLAND HYDATID CONTROL PROGRAMMES
4 CONTINENTAL HYDATID CONTROL PROGRAMMES WITH VARIABLE SUCCESS—SOUTH AMERICA
5 OTHER HYDATID CONTROL PROGRAMMES WITH NO OR LIMITED SUCCESS—WALES, KENYA, SARDINIA
6 CURRENT OPTIONS AND TOOLS FOR HYDATID CONTROL
7 CONCLUDING REMARKS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Control of Taenia solium Cysticercosis/Taeniosis
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 DISEASE DISTRIBUTION AND BURDEN
3 DIAGNOSIS
4 TREATMENT
5 VACCINATION
6 SURVEILLANCE AND REPORTING
7 PREVENTION AND CONTROL
8 CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Implementation of Human Schistosomiasis Control: Challenges and Prospects
ABSTRACT
1 INTRODUCTION
2 EPIDEMIOLOGY
3 CONTROL
4 SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVE
5 LOW TRANSMISSION AREAS
6 INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Index
Contents of Volumes in This Series
Volume 41
Volume 42
Volume 43
Volume 44
Volume 45
Volume 46
Volume 47
Volume 48
Volume 49
Volume 50
Volume 51
Volume 52
Volume 53
Volume 54
Volume 55 (Cumulative Subject Index – Vols. 28–52)
Volume 56
Volume 57
Volume 58
Volume 59
Volume 60
No. of pages: 682
Language: English
Published: February 13, 2007
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780120317653
eBook ISBN: 9780080462943
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David Molyneux
Affiliations and expertise
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK