Volume: 26S2 - March 2000
2000 Canadian recommendations for the prevention and
treatment of malaria among international travellers
prepared by the
COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON TROPICAL MEDICINE AND TRAVEL
(CATMAT)
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Prevention
3. Chemoprophylactic Regimens
4. Prevention of Malaria in Special Hosts
5. Malaria Prevention in the Long-Term Traveller
or Expatriate
6. Self Treatment of Presumptive Malaria
7. Diagnosis of Malaria
8. Treatment of Malaria
9. New Drugs for the Prevention and Treatment
of Malaria
Appendix I: Malaria Risk by Geographic Area
in Countries with Endemic Malaria
Appendix II: Strength and Quality of Evidence
Summary Sheet
Appendix III: Checklist for Travellers to Malarial
Areas
Appendix IV: Misconceptions about Malaria and
Mefloquine
Appendix V: Contact Information for Malaria
Centres of Excellence
Any enquiries may be directed to the
Travel Medicine Program
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
Tunney's Pasture Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0L2
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