Chemoprophylaxis and malaria death rates.

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Krause, Gerard; Schoneberg, Irene; Altman, Doris; Stark, Klaus | Copyright information

To determine the effect of chemoprophylaxis on the case-fatality rate of malaria, we analyzed all cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in nonimmune persons reported from 1993 to 2004 in Germany. In univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis, we determined the effect of age, sex, chemoprophylaxis, chemoprophylactic regimen, compliance for chemoprophylactic regimen, exposure prophylaxis, country of infection, and year of reporting on the outcome. Of 3,935 case-patient...

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