Malaria and mefloquine prophylaxis use among Japan ground self-defense force personnel deployed in East Timor

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 226-232

  Fujii, Tatsuya ^a   Kaku, Koki ^b   Jelinek, Tomas ^c   Kimura, Mikio ^d  

^a Self Defense Forces Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b Ground Self Defense Force Medical School   (Japan)

^c Berlin Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEFLOQUINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONSTIPATION; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY DISEASE; LASSITUDE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NIGHTMARE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROPHYLAXIS; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RELAPSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SEROCONVERSION; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER; SOMNOLENCE; SPOROZOITE; THORAX PAIN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TIMOR-LESTE; TINNITUS; TRAVEL; VERTIGO; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; EAST TIMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MEFLOQUINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34447271495     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2007.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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