Document ID (ISN) | 40408 |
CIS number |
83-1734 |
ISSN - Serial title |
0294-0817 - Médecine aéronautique et spatiale |
Year |
1983 |
Convention or series no. |
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Author(s) |
Landais S., Carre R., Fourn P., Picard H., Ille H., Didier A. |
Title |
Malaria chemoprevention in aircraft flight crews |
Original title |
La chimioprophylaxie du paludisme dans le personnel navigant de l'aéronautique [in French] |
Bibliographic information |
1983, Vol.22, No.85, p.14-18. 35 ref. |
Abstract |
Report of a questionnaire survey on the chemoprophylaxis of malaria in 134 flight crew members at risk to malaria, combined with the determination of urinary chloroquine. Factors limiting long-term acceptance of the need for and desirability of chemoprophylaxis include: fear of side-effects (in particular vision disorders) and the disparate and even contradictory information about the risk of contracting malaria. Doses and vision side effects are considered. Proposal of a classical protocol more acceptable to flight crew members (weekly doses of chloroquine). |
Descriptors (primary) |
pharmacological prevention; air transport; malaria; tropical diseases |
Descriptors (secondary) |
France; urine monitoring; medical supervision; questionnaire survey |
Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
Subject(s) |
Transport and communications
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Broad subject area(s) |
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Browse category(ies) |
Air transportation Bacterial and parasitic diseases
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