Treatment and Prevention of Malaria

1. Antimalarial Drugs and the Control and Elimination of Malaria
Karen I. Barnes

2. 4-Aminoquinolines: Chloroquine, Amodiaquine and Next-Generation Analogues
Paul M. O’Neill, Victoria E. Barton, Stephen A. Ward, James Chadwick

3. Cinchona Alkaloids: Quinine and Quinidine
David J. Sullivan

4. 8-Aminoquinolines: Primaquine and Tafenoquine
Norman C. Waters, Michael D. Edstein

5. Other 4-Methanolquinolines, Amyl Alcohols and Phentathrenes: Mefloquine, Lumefantrine and Halofantrine
Francois Nosten, Penelope A. Phillips-Howard, Feiko O. Kuile

6. Antifolates: Pyrimethamine, Proguanil, Sulphadoxine and Dapsone
Alexis Nzila

7. Naphthoquinones: Atovaquone, and Other Antimalarials Targeting Mitochondrial Functions
Akhil B. Vaidya

8. Non-Antifolate Antibiotics: Clindamycin, Doxycycline, Azithromycin and Fosmidomycin
Sanjeev Krishna, Henry M. Staines

9. Artemisinins: Artemisinin, Dihydroartemisinin, Artemether and Artesunate
Harin A. Karunajeewa

10. Second-Generation Peroxides: The OZs and Artemisone
Dejan M. Opsenica, Bogdan A. Šolaja

11. Combination Therapy in Light of Emerging Artemisinin Resistance
Harald Noedl

12. New Medicines to Combat Malaria: An Overview of the Global Pipeline of Therapeutics
Timothy N. C. Wells

13. Molecular Markers of Plasmodium Resistance to Antimalarials
Andrea Ecker, Adele M. Lehane, David A. Fidock

14. Prevention of Malaria
Patricia Schlagenhauf, Eskild Petersen

15. Malaria Diagnostics: Lighting the Path
David Bell, Mark D. Perkins

Keywords: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Immunology, Drug Resistance