Bruce-Chwatt's Essential Malariology [Hardcover]

Herbert M. Gilles (Editor), David A. Warrell (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 1993 | ISBN-10: 034057190X | ISBN-13: 978-0340571903 | Edition: 3

This third edition of Leonard Bruce-Chwatt's classic handbook has been revised by a team of international experts. It has an increased clinical orientation which particularly emphasizes the use of chemotherapy in the management of the disease. There is also extensive updating of our rapidly advancing scientific understanding of parasitological, entomological, epidemiological, clinical and immunological aspects of malaria and its transmission. 'Essential Malariology' provides an indispensable practical guide for the physician dealing with the disease anywhere in the world and also offers invaluable advice to public health workers implementing malaria-control policies and to laboratory staff.

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'Its admirable blend of up-to-date factual information, scholarly and authoritative comment and philosophical wisdom is applied to the whole range of human malariology...it has found a place in the research laboratory, the hospital and the consulting room as well as in the field worker's knapsack and the administrator's desk.' --Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (of the second edition)

About the Author

Herbert M. Gilles, Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. David A. Warrell, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Arnold Publishers; 3 edition (January 2, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034057190X
• ISBN-13: 978-0340571903
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,124,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars malaria in a nut shell, May 29, 2000

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Khushal Jhaveri (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bruce-Chwatt's Essential Malariology (Hardcover)

The book is all about malaria. It talks about the Vector i.e. the mosquito and the parasite, that causes malaria. Malaria is the most coomon disease in the tropics effecting people from Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The book covers various topics like the symptoms of malaria, various control measures which itself are divided into Biological control, Chemical control and mechanical control. Various drugs that are to be used for combacting the malarial parasite are given in details with the effectiveness of each against specific parasite.

It is book that in short covers the entire spectrum of Malaria.