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Immunosuppression in bancroftian filariasis
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1979Immunological function in Filipino patients with bancroftian filariasis, manifested as either asymptomatic microfilaraemia or chronic obstructive disease, was compared with that found in healthy control subjects living in the same area. As a group, patients with filariasis had raised serum IgG levels, impairment of antibody responses to tetanus and ...
D I, Grove, I J, Forbes
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Lymphangiography in bancroftian filariasis
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 19641) A safe and effective method of lymphangiography is described in detail. 2) Utilizing a fat-soluble contrast medium this technique permits opacification of lymph nodes as well as peripheral lymphatics. 3) In the present study patients with filarial lymphoedema, scrotal oedema, inguinal adenopathy and chyluria were investigated.
K M, CAHILL, R L, KAISER
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Community diagnosis of Bancroftian filariasis
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1993The objective of this study was to find the best tests for efficiently estimating the true prevalence of Bancroftian filariasis in endemic areas. The study population comprised 427 people over 10 years of age in an endemic village in Egypt. Four tests were evaluated; a standardized clinical examination, night blood examinations for microfilariae (50 ...
R, Faris +4 more
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Bancroftian Filariasis and Ivermectin
New England Journal of Medicine, 1990Lymphatic filariasis due to infection with Wuchereria bancrofti was introduced into the Americas with the importation of infected African slaves. In the early 1900s, both asymptomatic microfilaremia and the most obvious stigma of lymphatic filariasis, elephantiasis, were present in residents of Charleston, South Carolina.1 Although lymphatic filariasis
Peter F. Weller, Leo X. Liu
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Epidemiology and immunopathology of bancroftian filariasis
Microbes and Infection, 1999Human lymphatic filariasis affects 120 million people worldwide. Although the disease is considered to be potentially erradicable by the World Health Organization, comprehensive studies on epidemiological aspects as well as mechanisms of pathology development are still premature.
A B, de Almeida, D O, Freedman
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Bancroftian Filariasis in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1977In four neighborhoods of Puerto Limón, a Caribbean coastal city in a tropical rainforest area of Costa Rica, examination of 1-ml samples of night blood from 1,142 randomly selected, and 1,196 associated, persons by the Knott and filter-chamber techniques revealed microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti in about 3% of the 2,338 samples.
H, Weinstock +5 more
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Abnormal Lymphatic Function in Presymptomatic Bancroftian Filariasis
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1995Despite the common association of filarial infection with elephantiasis, the great majority of those infected are in fact clinically asymptomatic microfilariae carriers. The assumption has been that infection but not disease exists in these presymptomatic persons.
D O, Freedman +6 more
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Cellular immune response studies in bancroftian filariasis
Journal of Helminthology, 1997AbstractAn attempt was made to identify the filarial specific antigens that are capable of inducing immune response in human filariasis. Lymphocytes were taken from three clinically defined groups living in an endemic area in Madras, namely microfilaraemic (MF) subjects with microfilariae in their blood smear without any clinical symptoms, chronic ...
J, Regunathan, K, Jayaraman, P, Kaliraj
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