Malaria prophylaxis--the South African viewpoint.

A consensus meeting was held under the auspices of the Department of National Health and Population Development in September 1991 in order to establish local, current consensus on malaria prophylaxis for the South African traveller within South Africa and neighbouring African countries. The meeting was attended by malaria experts and others interested in malaria. The consensus reached took into consideration not only the international literature, but also local clinical experience and viewpoints. As a result, it was decided that prevention of mosquito bites is the mainstay of malaria prophylaxis and that chemoprophylaxis should be individualised. Malaria may still be contracted despite good compliance with the recommended prophylactic regimen.

Carbonate sediments: oriented lithified samples from the north atlantic.

Indurated carbonate samples, obtained from the North Atlantic sea floor with a deep-sea drill coring apparatus, suggest that the phenomenon of deep-sea carbonate lithification is more complex than had been thought previously. Lithified-nonlithified couplets can now be related in age and orientation. Age determinations based on the method of carbon-14 dating show that adjacent nonlithified-lithified layers may differ in age by more than 30,000 years.

Scanning electron microscope: potentials in the morphology of microorganisms.

Morphologic characteristics related to ecology and evolutionary sequences, and to specific, generic, and familial relations, can now be determined with the scanning electron microscope. These detailed characteristics will help to establish a more natural faunal classification and will enable more accurate ecologic and biostratigraphic correlations.