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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]
- Schizont [r]: Among protozoa, multinucleate cells or a stage in the development of sporozoa,exemplified by the life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum in the disease cycle of malaria. [e]
- Red blood cells [r]: Also called erythrocytes; a type of disc-shaped blood cell that contain hemoglobin, and the body's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body's cells via the blood, and the removal of carbon dioxide wastes that result from metabolism. [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]
- Sickle cell anemia [r]: A disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs. It is the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S. National Library of Medicine [e]
Treatment
- Artemisin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]: Add brief definition or description
- Faithful America [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence analysis of patterns of infectious diseases and impacts [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Add brief definition or description
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