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EDITOR,—Lorraine Traer-Clark disputes our use of the word temporary when describing the neuropsychiatric side effects attributed to mefloquine. We cannot comment on the possibility that long term side effects may result from use of mefloquine, but the subjects who responded to our questionnaire reported that adverse events seldom lasted longer than a few weeks. In response to Stuart Dollow I would point out that we were not attempting to compare our work with that of Steffen et al, whose definition of “serious” neuropsychiatric adverse events …

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