Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent

Analysis of malaria imported into eight European countries from the Indian sub-continent (ISC) (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) led to a consensus statement on the use of chemoprophylaxis within TropNetEurop. The proportion of cases from the ISC in 2004 ranged from 1.4%–4.6% of total impo...

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Autores principales: Behrens, RH, Bisoffi, Z, Björkman, A, Gascon, J, Hatz, C, Jelinek, T, Legros, F, Mühlberger, N, Voltersvik, P
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1373639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16451728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-7
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author Behrens, RH
Bisoffi, Z
Björkman, A
Gascon, J
Hatz, C
Jelinek, T
Legros, F
Mühlberger, N
Voltersvik, P
author_facet Behrens, RH
Bisoffi, Z
Björkman, A
Gascon, J
Hatz, C
Jelinek, T
Legros, F
Mühlberger, N
Voltersvik, P
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description Analysis of malaria imported into eight European countries from the Indian sub-continent (ISC) (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) led to a consensus statement on the use of chemoprophylaxis within TropNetEurop. The proportion of cases from the ISC in 2004 ranged from 1.4%–4.6% of total imported cases. Plasmodium falciparum cases reported from the eight countries was only 23 (13% of all cases from the region). Total malaria reports between 1999–2004 fell from 317 to 180. The risk of malaria in UK residents visiting the region was > 1 case per 1,000 years exposed. The group recommended non-selective prescribing of chemoprophylaxis for visitors to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka should be dropped.
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spelling pubmed-13736392006-02-18 Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent Behrens, RH Bisoffi, Z Björkman, A Gascon, J Hatz, C Jelinek, T Legros, F Mühlberger, N Voltersvik, P Malar J Commentary Analysis of malaria imported into eight European countries from the Indian sub-continent (ISC) (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) led to a consensus statement on the use of chemoprophylaxis within TropNetEurop. The proportion of cases from the ISC in 2004 ranged from 1.4%–4.6% of total imported cases. Plasmodium falciparum cases reported from the eight countries was only 23 (13% of all cases from the region). Total malaria reports between 1999–2004 fell from 317 to 180. The risk of malaria in UK residents visiting the region was > 1 case per 1,000 years exposed. The group recommended non-selective prescribing of chemoprophylaxis for visitors to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka should be dropped. BioMed Central 2006-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC1373639/ /pubmed/16451728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-7 Text en Copyright © 2006 Behrens et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Behrens, RH
Bisoffi, Z
Björkman, A
Gascon, J
Hatz, C
Jelinek, T
Legros, F
Mühlberger, N
Voltersvik, P
Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title_full Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title_fullStr Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title_full_unstemmed Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title_short Malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from Europe to the Indian Sub Continent
title_sort malaria prophylaxis policy for travellers from europe to the indian sub continent
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1373639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16451728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-5-7
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