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A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Bancroftian Filariasis

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1974
Abstract Exposure to infection with Wuchereria bancrofti was studied for 1 year in a suburb of Calcutta, India, and correlated with parasitological and clinical observations on the human study population. Blood surveys at the beginning and end of the study showed microfilaremia rates of 12.4% and 14.8%, respectively.
N. C. Bhattacharya, Duane J. Gubler
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A multidisciplinary study on bancroftian filariasis in Jakarta

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1978
A study on bancroftian filariasis in Jakarta has indicated that one person in one year could be exposed to 223,000 bites of Culex pipens fatigans and to 1,941 infective-stage larvae of Wuchereria bancrofti. Blood surveys with 20 mm3 samples revealed a microfilaria rate of 6%. Although some cases of hydrocele (4% of 272 males examined) were found, there
T. Suzuki, H. Mechfudin, H. Sajidiman, Felix Partono, Salim Usman, L. S. Self, M. J. Nelson, C. P. Pant   +7 more
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A Survey of Bancroftian Filariasis in the Dominican Republic

The Journal of Parasitology, 1987
Albert L. Vincent, Department of Comprehensive Medicine, University of South Rorida, College of Medicine, 12901 North 30th Street, Box 41, Tampa, Florida, 33612-4799; Anerico Gonzalvo, Department of Pathology, Tampa General Hospital, Davis Island, Tampa, Florida, 33606; Bruce C.
Bruce C. Cowell, Luz Uribe, Jai K. Nayar, Albert L. Vincent, Americo Gonzalvo   +4 more
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MSbB in the treatment of bancroftian filariasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1962
Abstract 1. 1) MSbB given by mouth to 10 patients for approximately 1 week had a significant filaricidal effect on W. bancrofti . 2. 2) The tolerance towards the test dosage of 8–19 mg./kg. daily and 49–138 mg./kg. for the total dose, was satisfactory.
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Serological Diagnosis of Bancroftian and Malayan Filariasis

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1978
A study was undertaken to define the sensitivity and specificity of serological tests in bancroftian and malayan filariasis and correlate the findings with clinical disease. Sera were collected from subjects on three different islands in the Philippines: one endemic for bancroftian filariasis, another endemic for malayan filariasis and the third ...
Rebecca S. Davis, David I. Grove
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The dynamics of infection and disease in Bancroftian filariasis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1991
This study examines the relationship between the dynamic of Wuchereria bancrofti infection and the development of chronic lymphatic disease. Data sets from Pondicherry, south India, and Calcutta are used to estimate the age-specific proportion of the endemic population which has converted from microfilaria positive to amicrofilaraemia, and is assumed ...
Rajagopalan Pk, Bryan T. Grenfell, S. P. Pani, A. Srividya, Donald A. P. Bundy   +4 more
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Treatment of Bancroftian Filariasis with Hetrazan in British Guiana

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine, 1949
Summary and Conclusions From the study of 296 cases of Bancroftian filariasis treated with Hetrazan in British Guiana the following conclusions and recommendations for treatment seem to be justified: 1.  Rapid reductions in microfilariae are obtained when oral doses of from 0.2 to 2.0 mg. per kg. of Hetrazan are given three times daily.
Redginal Hewitt, Michael Kenney
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Bancroftian Filariasis in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1977
In 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.
Herman Weinstock, Carlos Granados, Alberto Zúñiga, José Luis Garcés, Eladio Hernández, Francisco Paniagua   +5 more
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Bancroftian filariasis in a paediatric population: an ultrasonographic study

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1999
Little is known about lymphatic filariasis or the anatomical location of adult Wuchereria bancrofti in children. Seventy-eight children from Greater Recife, 23 microfilaria-positive and 55 microfilaria-negative in approximately 60 microL blood, underwent ultrasound examinations of the major superficial lymphatic vessels of the limbs, scrotal area (boys)
A. Santos, David G. Addiss, Zulma Medeiros, Joaquim Norões, Gerusa Dreyer, Gerusa Dreyer, José Figueredo-Silva   +6 more
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Abnormal Lymphatic Function in Presymptomatic Bancroftian Filariasis

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1995
Despite 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.
David O. Freedman, Besh S, A Maciel, P J de Almeido Filho, M C Maia e Silva, Cynthia Braga, Antónia Furtado   +6 more
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