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The incidence of these complications has been reduced by prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, preemptive therapy in patients at high risk for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation, and, more recently, screening for serum CMV antigen.

The potential effect of acute treatment was projected onto attacks not averted by prophylaxis.

Malaria infection can be influenced by variation in exposition to mosquito's bites as well as by prophylaxis intake.

As earlier initiation of drug therapy is likely to result in greater suppression of viral growth, we assume with others [6], [7] that the probability of seeding resistance by prophylaxis (ρp) is 10-fold smaller than by treatment (ρt).

A rebound of marginal magnitude in clinical cases is expected to occur less than one year after the last dose of SP. Since IPTc intervention is discrete in time, it allows for a period of time between doses when individuals are not protected by prophylaxis, since SP is cleared from the blood stream in about one month.

Attributable mortality was significantly reduced by prophylaxis: 0.5% in the prophylaxis group versus 2.9% in the control group (pooled OR: 0.23, 95% CI 0.09 to 0.60, NNT 41).

Although this might be explained by successful prophylaxis by antibiotics or polysaccharide vaccine, it is possible that people with asplenia were poorly recorded.

The incubation period may be significantly prolonged by the level of immunity acquired through previous exposures, by antimalarial prophylaxis, or by prior partial treatment, which may mitigate, but not prevent the disease [ 6].

These results are consistent with previous findings that hospitalization risk was more significantly reduced by pegfilgrastim prophylaxis than by filgrastim prophylaxis in clinical practice [ 20- 23].

CMV disease can be prevented either by CMV prophylaxis or pre-emptive treatment guided by CMV viral load monitoring [ 1].

Thus, public health systems should diversify intervention strategies by using prophylaxis in a very restrictive manner, by stockpiling different types of antiviral drugs and by supplementing pharmaceutical interventions with social distancing measures [ 22, 23].