The safety of mefloquine, a common antimalarial drug sold under the trade name Lariam, has not been well described in military populations. To use readily available electronic data to determine mefloquine prescriptions and disease outcomes, as measured by hospitalization, to study mefloquine safety among US service members from 2002 through 2004. Using an electronic pharmaceutical database, 8858 mefloquine-prescribed and deployed personnel were identified and compared with 2 reference groups. The ...
Infections of adenovirus type 4 (Ad4) and Ad7 were discovered among previously vaccinated individuals through febrile respiratory illness surveillance at military recruit camps. Genetic analysis was performed on these isolates and a sample of adenovirus isolates from unvaccinated patients. Antigenic regions of the adenovirus hexon gene from 21 vaccinated and 31 unvaccinated patients were sequenced and compared to homologous regions of Ad4 and Ad7 vaccine strains and of other representative ...
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