To the Editor.—Mefloquine (250 mg every 7 days) is the current drug regimen recommended by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease
Presents extracts from a study of methods of malaria prevention commonly used by travelers. Annual incidence of malaria; Etiology and risk factors; Prognosis for the majority of travelers who contract malaria; Benefits and drawbacks of a number of non-drug preventive interventions, including aerosol ...
Malaria prevention in non-immune travelers is based on chemoprophylaxis, recommended for all visitors to the region where there is active malaria transmission. However, all regimens have well recognized and not infrequent side effects, including severe events that interfere with routine daily activity. ...
Education on the prevention of malaria is greatly needed. Nurses can play a vital role in the eradication of this disease--in prevention for travelers, in the treatment of people who live in endemic areas, and in shaping international health policy. A nurse living and working in Brazil shares...
Longer-term travelers may prefer the convenience of weekly chloroquine, while shorter-term travelers may prefer the shorter course of atovaquone/proguanil or primaquine. Travel to Areas with Chloroquine-Resistant Malaria For destinations where chloroquine-resistant malaria is present, in addition to mosqu...
Juckett G. Malaria Prevention in Travelers. American Family Physician Vol. 59/No. 9 (May 1, 1999). Available athttp://www.aafp.org/afp/990501ap/2523.html Drugs for the treatment and prevention of malaria Available athttp://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/04vol30/30s1/table8...
Primaquine has proven safe and effective in the prevention of drug-resistant falciparum and vivax malaria in adults. This drug can be considered for travelers who are intolerant to other drugs. Abdominal pain and a blood condition called oxidant hemolysis, the principal side effects, are not common...
Malaria Prevention Malaria, a potentially life-threatening parasitic infection transmitted by mosquitoes, continues to be a major global health problem. Malaria remains the most common cause of fever in returned travellers, with an estimated 10,000 cases of travel-associated malaria occuring globally ...
While the prevention of malaria in travelers requires detailed knowledge of malaria epidemiology and host-vector-parasite interactions, they wrote, decisions are also complicated by lack of standardized recommendations. The Centers for Disease ... P Fischer - 《Infectious Disease Alert》 被引量: 5发表...
ITNs and IRS are regarded as the key malaria prevention and control interventions because of their proven impact on reduction of disease burden; however, scaling up the combination of vector control strategies justifies in setting goals for malaria elimination in many countries. Development of new ...