Compliance with and tolerance of mefloquine and chloroquine + proguanil malaria chemoprophylaxis in French short-term travellers to sub-Saharan Africa

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 953-956

  Carme, Bernard ^a,b   Peguet, Chantal ^a   Nevez, Gilles ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b CHU des Antilles et de la Guyane   (France)

Author keywords

c ompliance; chemoprophylaxis; chloroquine; malaria; mefloquine; proguanil; tolerance; travellers

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; PROGUANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FRANCE; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENEGAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030799402     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-153.x     Document Type: Article

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