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Wuchereria bancrofti in a Haitian Immigrant

Southern Medical Journal, 1985
A case of Wuchereria bancrofti filariasis was recently seen in a Haitian immigrant in Charleston, SC. The Caribbean area is a known endemic focus for this organism. With the increased numbers of immigrants from that area, it is likely that other such cases will be seen in the US.
R C, Morris, A A, Pappas, A J, Garvin
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Amicrofilaraemic carriers of adult Wuchereria bancrofti

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1996
To determine the extent to which Wuchereria bancrofti infections can be detected in asymptomatic amicrofilaraemic men in Greater Recife, Brazil, we studied 100 asymptomatic men who were long-term residents (> or = 15 years) of this filariasis-endemic area and who were amicrofilaraemic in 60 microL of capillary blood collected at night.
G, Dreyer, A, Santos, J, Norões, A, Rocha, D, Addiss   +4 more
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Experimental Transmission of Wuchereria Bancrofti to Monkeys

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1979
Infective larvae of Wuchereria bancrofti from laboratory-raised Culex pipiens fatigans and Aedes togoi mosquitoes fed on human volunteers in Jakarta, Indonesia (J strain) and Kinmen Island, China (K strain) were introduced into Taiwan monkeys (Macaca cyclopis) by subcutaneous inoculation, by foot puncture, or by permitting infected mosquitoes to feed ...
J H, Cross, F, Partono, M Y, Hsu, L R, Ash, S, Oemijati   +4 more
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Successful cryopreservation of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1982
A fast freezing technique developed by James (1981) significantly improved the yield of schistosome larvae that could be stored in liquid nitrogen. This was adapted by Ham et al. (1981) to the freezing of microfilariae of Onchocerca spp. with excellent results. They found 70 to 80% of the cryopreserved larvae remained viable using this method and since
D G, Owen, M, Anantaraman
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Microfilarial periodicity of Wuchereria bancrofti in Vanuatu

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2003
A study on the relationship between the microfilarial periodicity of Wuchereria bancrofti and vector biting activity was carried out in Penama province, Vanuatu from February to April 1999, to enable the design of a more efficient strategy to control filariasis transmission. The microfilarial periodicities of 22 W. bancrofti antigen-positive volunteers
M, Abe, J, Yaviong, G, Taleo, K, Ichimori   +3 more
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Epidemiology of Wuchereria bancrofti in Leogane, Haiti

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1988
A survey for Wuchereria bancrofti in Leogane, Haiti, revealed that 140 of 421 individuals (33%) had a patent infection, of which 40% lived in the suburban outskirts of the city. The median microfilaria density was 19.1 per 20 mm3 of blood for suburban dwellers compared with only 8.8 for those living in the city. The vector, Culex quinquefasciatus (Say),
C P, Raccurt, R C, Lowrie, S P, Katz, Y T, Duverseau   +3 more
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Studies on the Vectors of Wuchereria Bancrofti in Liberia

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1955
Summary From January, 1952, through April, 1953, a series of dissections of wild-caught anthropophilic mosquitoes for larval worms resembling Wuchereria bancrofti was performed in Marshall Territory, Liberia. Advanced-stage infections were found in Anopheles gambiae, A. melas, and A. hancocki.
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Susceptibility of aposymbiotic Culex quinquefasciatus to Wuchereria bancrofti

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1983
Abstract Larvae of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus originating from Kenya were reared in 0.025 mg/ml tetracycline hydrochloride. Some of the resulting progeny were shown, by electron microscopy and crossing experiments, to have been rendered free of the rickettsia like symbiont Wolbachia pipientis and from these progeny, symbiont-free lines were ...
Curtis, CF, Ellis, DS, Doyle, PE, Hill, N, Ramji, BD, Irungu, LW, Townson, H   +6 more
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Transplacental Transmission of Wuchereria bancrofti in Haitian Women

The Journal of Parasitology, 1993
To document the occurrence of transplacental transmission of microfilariae and to determine how frequently it occurred, umbilical cord blood samples and placental tissues were collected from 22 microfilaria-positive women in an area with endemic Wuchereria bancrofti. Microfilaria (mf) counts in the women ranged from 1 to 3,820 mf/ml. Microfilariae were
M L, Eberhard, W L, Hitch, D F, McNeeley, P J, Lammie   +3 more
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THE TREATMENT OF FILARIASIS (WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI)

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1944
Filaria infections and elephantiasis have not been of especial concern to American physicians despite the widespread distribution of this condition throughout the world. Only at Charleston, S. C., the endemic focus of the United States, has the disease been an immediate problem.
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