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Revision as of 15:42, 27 May 2010
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Parent topics
- Indigenous knowledge [r]: Local-level accumulated knowledge that does not originate in academic or corporate research institutions, inherited in situ through tradition and culture. [e]
- Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases [e]
Subtopics
Etiology & pathology
- Plasmodium falciparum [r]: Protozoan parasite, one of the species of Plasmodium that cause falciparum malaria in humans, transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. [e]
Prevention
- Vector (epidemiology) [r]: The means by which a cause of morbidity or mortality propagates, such as insects, contaminated water, etc. [e]
- Mosquito (insect) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DDT [r]: An organochlorine pesticide that is very effective at killing mosquitoes and was used effectively in the fight against malaria. [e]
Treatment
- Artemisinin [r]: An extract from the Chinese herb qinghaosu and its semisynthetic derivatives, the most important drugs used worldwide against malaria; drug resistance is an increasing problem [e]
- Artemether-lumefantrine [r]: Approved for uncomplicated P. falciparum infection, a fixed-combination antimalarial [e]
- Atovaquone-proguanil [r]: Fixed-combination antimalarial that may have action against babesiosis; approved for chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum [e]
- Chloroquine [r]: First effective synthetic antimalarial; discovered in Germany and not generally available until after the Second World War [e]
- Clindamycin [r]: An antibiotic drug, in the lincomycin class, used to treat infections including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; use is associated with an increased incidence of Clostridium difficile enteritis [e]
- Doxycycline [r]: Tetracycline derivative; treats malaria, anthrax, brucellosis, cholera, ornithosis, plague etc. [e]
- Hydroxychloroquine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mefloquine [r]: An antimalarial approved, as an orphan drug, for Plasmodium vivax chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum prevention and treatment; contraindicated in preexisting major psychiatric disease and associated with new psychiatric disorders [e]
- Quinacrine [r]: An obsolescent synthetic antimalarial used by the U.S. military in WWII; still the preferred drug for Giardia and used for female sterilization [e]
- Quinine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tetracycline [r]: Both a class of naphthacene antibiotics, and a specific member of the class, which inhibit amino alkyl transfer RNA binding during protein synthesis [e]
Organizations
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA [e]
- Faithful America [r]: An interfaith U.S. liberal religiously-based interest group [e]
- U.S. intelligence analysis of patterns of infectious diseases and impacts [r]: The United States intelligence community model for the spread and world impact of infectious disease [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]