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The History of Bancroftian Lymphatic Filariasis in Australasia and Oceania: Is There a Threat of Re-Occurrence in Mainland Australia?

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) infects an estimated 120 million people worldwide, with a further 856 million considered at risk of infection and requiring preventative chemotherapy.
Catherine A. Gordon, Malcolm K. Jones, Donald P. McManus   +2 more
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MEDICAL AND LITERARY ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE FILARIASIS BY Wuchereria Bancrofti IN CARTAGENA AND COLOMBIA

Revista Ciencias Biomédicas, 2014
Description exists in the Colombian medical words of a disease that had high prevalence in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, since the 16th century until half of the 20th century.
Sotomayor-Tribin Hugo Armando
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Expression, purification, and inhibition profile of dihydrofolate reductase from the filarial nematode Wuchereria bancrofti.

, 2018
Filariasis is a tropical disease caused by the parasitic nematodes Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi. Known inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) have been previously shown to kill Brugia malayi nematodes and to inhibit Brugia malayi DHFR ...
Gubler, Ueli, Keith Lange, Tyler Eck (5249684), Ueli Gubler (2299246), Rohit Bhat, Cheryl A Janson, Bhat, Rohit, Goodey, Nina M., Tyler Eck, Andrew M. Tobias, Cheryl A. Janson (2045077), David P. Rotella (488734), Dea Toska, Keith Lange (5249693), Andrew M Tobias, Lange, Keith, David P. Rotella, Ueli Gubler, Cheryl A. Janson, Tobias, Andrew M., David P Rotella, Dea Toska (5249690), Rotella, David P., Toska, Dea, Eck, Tyler, Andrew M. Tobias (5249687), Rohit Bhat (4852723), Nina M. Goodey, Nina M Goodey, Nina M. Goodey (1925644), Janson, Cheryl A.   +30 more
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One Case of Filariasis in which many Wuchereria Bancrofti were found

, 1954
Having given 0.3g of Hetrazan (Lederle) every day to a patient (a soldier, thirty years of age) whose diagnosis was filariasis, we observed the effect on the microfilaria, and found that the patient felt tension in the lower abdomen on the sixth day ...
片峰, 大助, 伊集院, 武文, 藤巻, 博教   +2 more
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Short communication: Impact of long-term (14 years) bi-annual ivermectin treatment on Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemia

, 2005
Ivermectin has been and continues to be extensively used to control onchocerciasis in areas of hyper and mesoendemicity within the African Programme of Onchocerciasis Control.
Molyneux, David, Medlock, J., Kyelem, D., Boatin, B., Sanou, S., Bonkoungou, M.   +5 more
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Human toxocariasis: frequency of anti-Toxocara antibodies in children and adolescents from an outpatient clinic for lymphatic filariasis in Recife, Northeast Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2004
In a transversal study on a sample of 386 children and adolescents from an outpatient clinic for filariasis in Recife, Northeast Brazil, the frequency of anti-Toxocara antibodies and its relation to age, gender, number of peripheral eosinophils ...
Ana Maria Aguiar-Santos, Luiz D. Andrade, Zulma Medeiros, Pedro Paulo Chieffi, Suzana Z. Lescano, Emília P. Perez   +5 more
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日本の乳糜尿患者における，バンクロフト糸状虫循環抗原，フィラリア抗原特異的IgGならびにIgG4抗体の検出

, 1999
Serum sarnples from Japanese chyluria patients were examined for filaria specific antibodies and a circulating filarial antigen in order to know if the symptom was filarial in origin. All the sera were negative for the circulating antigen.
Qiu, Xu-Guang, Weerasooriya, Marani V., Fujimaki, Yasunori, Visanou, Hanesana, Ogawa, Yoshihide, Itoh, Makoto, Koyama, Yuzo, Kimura, Eisaku   +7 more
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Immuno-Serological Studies of Filariasis. : III. Cutaneous reaction and pretipitin test with Wuchereria antigens and evidence of antigenicity of urine from filariasis patients. [PDF]

, 1959
The cutaneous reaction and precipitin test with 3 kinds of antigens prepared from Wuchereria bancrofti were carried out in 184 cases of Bancroft's filariasis.
田辺, 紀夫
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Comparative Modelling and Binding Site Prediction of Gp 15 / 400 Polyprotein of Wuchereria bancrofti by Using Computational Approaches

, 2012
Lymphatic filariasis is a tropical disease caused by filarial parasites Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi that are transmitted to human beings by mosquitoes. It is evident from previous researches that GP 15 / 400 polyprotein is an important protein
Mishra, M, Srivastava, P, Pant, AB
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IDENTIFICATION OF MICROFILARIAE USING CONVENTIONAL POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION AND QPCR-HRM

Journal of Vocational Health Studies
Background: The presence of filarial worms in the lymph nodes can result in acute symptoms, such as inflammation of the lymph nodes and ducts, particularly in the groin region. As part of the life cycle of filariasis, symptomatic or asymptomatic patients
Bagus Muhammad Ihsan, Widyana Lakshmi Puspita, Linda Triana, Wahdaniah, Khayan, Cecep Dani Sucipto   +5 more
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