Malaria prevention behaviour and risk awareness in French adult travellers

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-21

  Pistone, Thierry ^a   Ezzedine, Khaled ^a,b   Gaudin, Anne Françoise ^c   Hercberg, Serge ^b   Nachbaur, Gaëlle ^c   Malvy, Denis ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANDRÉ   (France)

^b University of Paris XIII ^*  (France)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chemoprophylaxis; Malaria; Prophylaxis; Risk; Travel

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE PLUS PROGUANIL; DOXYCYCLINE; MEFLOQUINE; PROGUANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 76949100524     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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