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What is a prophylaxis?

What is a prophylaxis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.
  2. (chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.
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She would also be encouraged to begin prophylaxis for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia with Bactrim.
They need to be backed up by drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic infections.
Containment may not be possible without vaccination, prophylaxis or effective treatment.
These surgical patients would receive our routine antibiotic prophylaxis as well as the study drug.
Physicians who have been exposed to a person known to have pertussis need antibiotic prophylaxis.
Currently, there is no vaccine for the disease, and postexposure prophylaxis is not effective.

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