Publications

a successful control programme for lymphatic filariasis in hubei, china.	this paper describes the epidemiology and control of human lymphatic filariasis in hubei province, china from the 1950s to the 1990s. brugia malayi, transmitted by anopheles sinensis, and wuchereria bancrofti, transmitted by culex quinquefasciatus, were found in 69 of 78 counties and cities. the distribution of filaria species was distinct, with b. malayi endemic in the plains, mixed infections in hilly areas, and w. bancrofti in the mountains. before 1979, the microfilaria rate (mfr) in some vi ...	1994	7992323
tests for possible effects of selection by domestic pyrethroids for resistance in culicine and anopheline mosquitoes in sichuan and hubei, china.	resistance tests, by conventional methods and by observing the time for knockdown, showed no evidence for any build up of resistance to deltamethrin in malaria vectors from areas where millions of bednets have been treated with this compound annually for up to 7 years. however, a strain of culex quinquefasciatus which had been bred in a factory in which volatile pyrethroids are handled had developed unequivocal resistance to deltamethrin. observation of the time for knockdown gave clearer discri ...	1995	8745942