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Table 4 Prescribed vaccines and malaria chemoprophylaxis

From: Retrospective analysis of older travellers attending a specialist travel health clinic

Characteristics

Frequency (N)

Proportion (%)

Previous vaccine

 Yes

87

25.8

 No

245

72.7

Vaccinations received at the clinic

 Typhoid

112

33.2

 Hepatitis A

84

24.9

 DPT (Diphtheria/Polio/Tetanus)

65

19.2

 Yellow fever

17

5.0

 Rabies

15

4.5

 Meningococcal

12

3.5

 Hepatitis B

10

2.9

 Oral cholera

10

2.9

 Influenza

4

1.1

 Japanese encephalitis

2

0.5

 Pneumococcal

0

0.0

Malaria chemoprophylaxis

 Atovaquone-Proguanil

120

35.6

 Doxycycline

2

0.5