RT Book, Section
A1 John, Chandy C.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182904730
T1 Malaria
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182904730
RD 2024/04/25
AB Malaria  is  among  the  leading  infectious  causes  of  morbidity  and  mortality  in  children  worldwide.  Each  year,  there  are  more  than  200  million  clinical  cases,  causing  an  estimated  438,000  deaths  in  2015,  most  in  sub-Saharan  African  children  under  the  age  of  5  years.  Increasing  drug  resistance,  climatic  changes,  population  shifts,  economic  changes,  abandonment  of  malaria  control  programs,  and  insecticide  resistance  all  contributed  to  a  resurgence  of  malaria  in  the  developing  world  from  the  1970s  to  the  2000s.  Recent  World  Health  Organization  (WHO),  governmental,  and  nonprofit  foundation  support  for  effective  preventative  measures—such  as  insecticide-treated  bednets,  indoor  residual  spraying,  and  the  implementation  of  artemisinin  combination  therapy  as  first-line  treatment  for  malaria  in  many  sub-Saharan  African  countries—has  significantly  reduced  malaria  incidence  and  deaths  in  many  countries.