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THE CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS OF INFECTION
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1955Excerpt The effectiveness of the antimicrobial agents in eliminating certain organisms and in curing the diseases produced by them has led to their use for the prevention of specific infectious pro...
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Medical Journal of Australia, 1986
More than half the world's population lives in areas where there is a potential risk of malaria. Programs for controlling malaria in cities and other areas of developing countries have broken down for many reasons, including the cost of vector control, resistance of mosquitoes to readily available insecticides such as DDT, and the emergence of ...
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More than half the world's population lives in areas where there is a potential risk of malaria. Programs for controlling malaria in cities and other areas of developing countries have broken down for many reasons, including the cost of vector control, resistance of mosquitoes to readily available insecticides such as DDT, and the emergence of ...
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Chemoprophylaxis of meningitis
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1991Chemoprophylaxis of meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae may be determined by the epidemiology of transmission, the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of the organisms, and the usage of vaccines. A review of transmission in England distinguishes differences in sporadic and cluster meningococcal infections.
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Chemoprophylaxis for Bacterial Meningitis
Acta Clinica Belgica, 1986SummaryThe risk of contracting a meningococcal or Haemophilus meningitis for subjects in contact with a patient suffering from one of these diseases can be very high for some of them such as those in close contact with the patient, as well as children attending day-care centers or nursery schools; on the other hand, for subjects in more distant contact
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1980
Travelers to areas where malaria is endemic must be apprised of the risks they will face and the methods they should employ to prevent infection. Patients should be screened for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, and a chemoprophylactic drug should be prescribed.
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Travelers to areas where malaria is endemic must be apprised of the risks they will face and the methods they should employ to prevent infection. Patients should be screened for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, and a chemoprophylactic drug should be prescribed.
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Modern Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
Drugs, 2005Currently available medications for malaria chemoprophylaxis are efficacious but the problems of patient compliance, the advance of parasite drug resistance, and real or perceived serious adverse effects mean that new chemical compounds are needed.Primaquine, which has been widely used to treat relapsing malaria since the 1950s, has been shown to ...
Shanks, G. Dennis, Edstein, Michael D.
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Chemoprophylaxis of bacterial meningitis
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1993Bacterial meningitis continues to be a life-threatening disease and an important cause of severe disability in otherwise healthy individuals. This article reviews the aspects related to the prevention of secondary cases. Our understanding about the factors leading to an epidemic and the identification of high risk groups remains limited.
L E, Cuevas, C A, Hart
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Antibiotics and chemoprophylaxis
Periodontology 2000, 2008Seymour RA, Hogg SD
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Chemoprophylaxis of Malaria for Travelers
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1974Abstract Physicians advising travelers going to parts of the world where malaria transmission occurs should recommend antimalarial prophylaxis.
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