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Malaria Chemoprophylaxis, Universidad de las Américas
Tropical medicine
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Malaria Chemoprophylaxis
The risk of acquiring malaria depend of many factors including the type and intesity of malaria transmission at the destination, the duration and style of travel, the prevention measures used, and individual characteristics.
The decision to use chemoprophylaxis depends on a risk-benefit analysis weighing the risk of malaria against the risk of possible adverse drug reactions.
The risk of being infected with malaria should be balanced with the risk of adverse events from malaria chemoprophylaxis.
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Specific patient groups
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Pregnant women
Intermittent preventive treatment is effective for reducing the risk of malaria infection among pregnant women
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Systemic insecticides
Mass administration of systemic insecticides to reduce malaria transmission is an area of growing interest
Ivermectin is promising systemic insecticide, it is capable of killing anopheline mosquitoes when they blood feed on invermectin-treated individuals.
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