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M C Receveur

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PubMed1993

[Simultaneous vaccination against hepatitis A and yellow fever].

Simultaneous vaccination against hepatitis A and yellow fever has been studied in our unit: Santé-Voyage, Bordeaux. This randomised study included 108 healthy subjects: 36 received hepatitis A vaccine (Havrix, SKF), 36 received yellow fever vaccine and 36 received both. For hepatitis A vaccine protocol comprised one injection at day zero, one at D15, and one booster dose at 6 months. Those who received yellow fever vaccine had it at D0. Simultaneous vaccination is well tolerated and immunogenicity is as good as it is for each vaccine separately. This is particularly interesting for tropical travellers who are at risk for hepatitis A.

Hepatitis A↗
PubMed1993

[Real information needs of the traveller before his departure. Results of a survey by questionnaire].

This study is based upon 727 questionnaires completed by French travellers 10 days after intercontinental travel. The response rate was 40%. Two out of 5 travellers had generally mild health problems: fever (12%), diarrhoea (36%). Forty-six of them took drugs, which they had brought with them during their travel. Ten per cent had a satisfactory visit to a local physician. Medical informations given before departure appears to be sufficient, useful and relevant in more than 90% of cases. The traveller would like to receive them from his own physician or from vaccination centers. Other informations as insurance, assistance, administration, finances, appeared to have been incorrectly perceived by 20% of the travellers. The travel agent is the one who should provide adequate information. The traveller, in general, plans to do more travelling for his own well being if not for his work. Would not the bigger risk for him be "not to travel at all".

Adult↗
PubMed1993

[Ventricular arrhythmia and halofantrine intake. Probable deleterious effect. Apropos of 3 cases].

Incidence and malignant forms of imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria are increasing, and chemoprevention is more and more replaced by stand-by treatment and radical cure in preventing access on return from malaria areas. Halofantrine is recommended for this radical cure: it's an habitually well-tolerated amino-alcohol with very few side-effects. We report three cases of long QT-interval due to halofantine: three different young women coming back from Africa took halofantrine (500 mg (2 tablets) six hourly for three doses on the first and the seventh day) and all presented with syncopal episodes. Serum electrolyte concentrations and echocardiograms were normal. In one case only, a diagnosis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria was made, without severe manifestations, and in the two other cases, treatment was a radical cure. In two cases, several bursts of torsades de pointes ventricular tachycardia due to halofantrine were proven and electrophysiological cardiac tests concluded that they had a congenital long QT-interval/Romano-Ward syndrome). So far halofantrine cardiac toxicity was unknown with single dose of 24 mg/kg/d. This phenomenon can be very severe in case of preexisting cardiopathy. In spite of the rarity on the congenital Romano-Ward syndrome, systematic electrocardiogram is necessary before giving halofantrine.

Adult↗