A Field Guide on Malariology in a unique book on malaria control comprising both conventional and modern methods of mosquito and malaria control. Malaria an anopheline mosquito borne communicable disease is one of the major threats to mankind, causing huge physical, psychological and monetary loss and affecting about half of the world population. In India malaria and mosquito situation is grim and affects about 2-3 million people with more than a thousand deaths annually.
This book brings updated information on both malaria vector and parasite, and is organized in six chapters namely on diagnosis, distribution, biology, ecology and management; in addition, it also contains vital information on antimalarial plants found in various parts of the country used for treatment of malaria, which may be useful treasure for the development of newer effective antimalarial drugs.
The book should create interest among large section of the society and will be a great help to the public health managers of various levels engaged in combating malaria. The book is presented in lucid and clearly comprehensible style on malaria and its vectors and will hopefully serve good purpose to all public health workers, medical students, disease managers, researchers/scientists, academia and NGOs. And above all it will serve as an important source for malaria education to a common man who is going to play a key role in bringing down the malaria epidemic in future by community participation.
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