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Document ID (ISN)40408
CIS number 83-1734
ISSN - Serial title 0294-0817 - Médecine aéronautique et spatiale
Year 1983
Convention or series no.
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
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Air transportation
Bacterial and parasitic diseases