Schistosomiasis prophylaxis in vivo using N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)

Jackson, Frank I.; Doherty, J.F.; Behrens, Ron H

doi:10.1016/s0035-9203(03)90087-3

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“…The use of petroleum jelly and vigorous drying with towels, with application of ethanol to exposed skin, has been proposed as an effective means of reducing cercarial penetration, but no study has demonstrated the effectiveness of this procedure [25,61]. In contrast, the use of N , N ‐diethyl‐m‐toluamide 50% ointment in 15 travellers at Lake Malawi was associated with the absence of infection during a 3‐month follow‐up period [70]. Prior to being used for personal cleaning, contaminated water should be heated to 50°C for 5 min or treated with iodine or chlorine.…”

Section: Preventionmentioning

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Acute schistosomiasis, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Jauréguiberry

Paris

Caumes

2010

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

115

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In non-endemic countries, acute (invasive) schistosomiasis (AS) is typically seen in non-immune travellers, whereas chronic schistosomiasis is more frequently diagnosed in immigrants. Travellers with AS initially present with non-specific signs such as fever, cough, headache, and urticaria. Life-threatening cardiac and neurological complications may occur. The positive diagnosis of AS relies on seroconversion, which appears together with hypereosinophilia approximately 3 weeks after the onset of symptoms. When prescribed during AS, praziquantel usually does not prevent the chronic phase of the disease and is associated with exacerbation of signs and symptoms in approximately 50% of cases. According to the published literature, corticosteroids may be recommended alone or in association with praziquantel. When associated with corticosteroids, pharmacokinetic interactions may impair the efficacy of praziquantel. We suggest that corticosteroids should be restricted to use in patients with systemic complications of AS, whereas praziquantel should be initiated only when ova are detected in either stools or urine, depending on the culprit species.

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Section: Preventionmentioning

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Acute schistosomiasis, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Jauréguiberry

Paris

Caumes

2010

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

115

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“…Coeliac disease is a common condition (prevalence about 1:300 using serological tests) but frequently undiagnosed in adulthood, particularly when gastrointestinal symptoms are absent. 1,2 In this patient, severe malabsorption led to vitamin K deficiency, and the resulting anticoagulated state predisposed her to massive bilateral adrenal haemorrhage.…”

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“…Prophylactic DEET has been shown to reduce the risk of acquiring schistosomiasis infection. 1 Schistosomiasis has three distinct clinical syndromes. 2 The first, 'swimmer's itch', occurs in response to cercarial penetration of the skin.…”

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Schistosomiasis among travellers returning from Malawi: a common occurrence

Moore¹,

Doherty²

2004

QJM

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“…Engineering projects and sanitation campaigns-that is to say, greater environmental management-helped make the tropics safer for foreigners, which led some to question theories of environmental determinism. 55 Of course, climatic determinism did not vanish altogether, as colonialist and racist notions of the "white man's burden" persisted at the turn of the twentieth century. 56 In the greater Caribbean region, diseases such as malaria and yellow fever had crippled U.S. troops in the Spanish-American War and workers building the Panama Canal.…”

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Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine, and Tourism Changed Tropical Weather from Deadly to Healthy

Carey

2011

Osiris

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This article examines how four major historical factors--geographical features, social conditions, medicine, and tourism--affected European and North American views of the tropical Caribbean climate from approximately 1750 to 1950. It focuses on the British West Indies, a region barely examined in the historiography of climate, and examines the views of physicians, residents, government officials, travelers, and missionaries. International perceptions of the tropical Caribbean climate shifted markedly over time, from the deadly, disease-ridden environment of colonial depictions in the eighteenth century to one of the world's most iconic climatic paradises, where tourists sought sun-drenched beaches and healing breezes, in the twentieth. This analysis of how environmental conditions, knowledge systems, social relations, politics, and economics shaped scientific and popular understandings of climate contributes to recent studies on the cultural construction of climate. The approach also offers important lessons for present-day discussions of climate change, which often depict climate too narrowly as simply temperature.

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Schistosomiasis prophylaxis in vivo using N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Acute schistosomiasis, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Acute schistosomiasis, a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Schistosomiasis among travellers returning from Malawi: a common occurrence

Inventing Caribbean Climates: How Science, Medicine, and Tourism Changed Tropical Weather from Deadly to Healthy

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