Chemoprophylaxis of infections

In order to prevent certain diseases, preventive use of antibiotics or chemopreparations is carried out.
An example is the prevention of reinfection with angina, when patients after the course of penicillin enter bicillin-5, which prevents complications of rheumatism. The use of mefloquine is advisable when leaving for climatic zones where malaria is common. Effective chemoprevention of influenza is the use of remantadine.
Antibiotics are ineffective in preventive use to prevent bacterial complications in influenza, other acute respiratory diseases, viral diseases with skin rashes (measles, rubella, chicken pox, etc.).