Travellers returning to Sweden with falciparum malaria: Pre-travel advice, behaviour, chemoprophylaxis and diagnostic delay
| Autor: | Karl Ekdahl, Urban Hellgren, Anders Tegnell, Jean Henric Braconier, Ulf Bronner, Helena H. Askling, Lars Rombo, Ragnhild Janzon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Microbiology (medical) Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Chemoprevention Antimalarials Surveys and Questionnaires parasitic diseases Health care Animals Humans Medicine Malaria Falciparum Child Protozoal disease Disease Notification Sweden Bed nets Travel General Immunology and Microbiology biology business.industry Infant Newborn Bedding and Linens Infant Plasmodium falciparum General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases Median time Child Preschool Insect Repellents Africa Chemoprophylaxis Female Rural area business Malaria Demography |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 37:760-765 |
| ISSN: | 1651-1980 0036-5548 |
| Popis: | We have investigated pre-travel advice, behaviour, chemoprophylaxis and diagnostic delay in travellers returning to Sweden with falciparum malaria. Questionnaires were distributed to patients having been notified with falciparum malaria from 1994 to 2001. Of 408 notified patients, 237 (58%) returned the questionnaires; 62% were males and 43% above the age of 45 y. Africa was the travel destination in 90% of the cases, and 27% had travelled to Kenya. 69% had spent more than 1 night in the countryside, and 6% had stayed in modern urban areas only. 40% took an adequate dose of chemoprophylaxis, although this proportion decreased from 55% to 12% during the study period. Nine per cent used both bed nets and mosquito repellents regularly. The median time from onset of symptoms to contact with health care professionals was 2 d, and from that contact to start of malaria treatment the median time was less than 24 h. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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