Publications
| Title | Abstract | Year Filter | PMID(sorted descending) Filter |
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| adult wuchereria bancrofti (cobbald, 1877) in subcutaneous cyst of man. | 1968 | 4234372 | |
| evaluation of wuchereria bancrofti infection in culex pipiens fatigans in rangoon, burma. | in the past, several indices have been proposed to evaluate the threat of vectors to the community. such indices, if accurately determined, could serve to assess the effectiveness of vector control campaigns. in this paper, a "risk of infection" index is introduced for the case of urban filariasis transmitted by culex pipiens fatigans in rangoon, burma. this index is directly proportional to the three principal parameters that determine the extent of transmission-namely, the biting density of th ... | 1967 | 4227200 |
| development of wuchereria bancrofti in the domestic cat. | 1966 | 4224348 | |
| anopheles maculatus, a new vector of wuchereria bancrofti in malaysia (pulau aur) and a potential vector on mainland malaya. | 1965 | 4221431 | |
| [study of parasite reduction in different natural or experimental filariasis vectors]. | 1974 | 4212830 | |
| schistosoma mansoni. sir patrick manson, 1844-1922. | 1974 | 4156405 | |
| filarial infectivity rate of culex pipiens molestus subjected to sublethal concentrations of insecticides abate and sevin and distribution of infective filaria larvae in mosquito body regions. | 1974 | 4143395 | |
| studies on filariasis in the pacific. 3. comparative efficacy of the stained blood-film, counting-chamber and membrane-filtration techniques for the diagnosis of wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemia in untreated patients in areas of low endemicity. | 1973 | 4129260 | |
| [new guinea and australia: their common pathology]. | new guinea and australia have been joined together during several hundred millions of years. inhabited by men 40,000 years ago, these populations (papous and aborigenes) have been separated of the others during several millenaries. the first invaders brought with them plasmodiums, necator americanus, wuchereria bancrofti and dengue virus. brugia malayi, because lack of primates, took non root in new guinea; the virus of murray valley encephalitis is autochthonous; the high frequency of burkitt l ... | 1985 | 4085103 |
| comparison of immunoblot and immunoprecipitation methods for analyzing cross-reactive antibodies to filarial antigens. | qualitative analysis of antibody responses in helminth infections is essential not only for developing better immunodiagnostic antigens but also for understanding immune recognition and its relevance to immunopathogenesis and protective immunity. in this study 2 qualitative analytic methods (immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting) were compared for the ability to define the extent of cross-reactivity in the serum antibodies from patients with various forms of filariasis (caused by brugia malayi, ... | 1985 | 4067318 |
| filariasis in fujian province. | 1985 | 3938380 | |
| [epidemiologic characteristics and control of filariasis in guizhou province]. | 1985 | 3915729 | |
| [surveys on filariasis patients with symptoms and physical signs in tengxian county with filariasis basically eradicated]. | 1985 | 3915727 | |
| [microfilarial periodicity of wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi in sichuan]. | 1985 | 3915726 | |
| cellular immune competence in bancroftian filariasis. | lymphocyte proliferative responses to homologous and heterologous filarial antigens, mitogens and purified protein derivatives (ppd) were analysed in a group of 37 subjects from an area endemic for bancroftian filarial infection. the majority of the subjects without any clinical or parasitological evidence of filariasis (endemic normals) reacted with homologous microfilarial antigens only. non-treated patients with patent microfilaraemia, did not respond to homologous of heterologous microfilari ... | 1985 | 3915514 |
| is wuchereriasis a disappearing disease in suriname? | 1985 | 3915416 | |
| dramatic manifestations of filarial infection (w. bancrofti). | 1985 | 3915047 | |
| the efficacy of annual single-dose treatment with diethylcarbamazine citrate against diurnally subperiodic bancroftian filariasis in samoa. | treatment of subperiodic bancroftian filariasis, which is endemic in samoa, with diethylcarbamazine citrate (dec-c) in single doses of 4 mg/kg, 6 mg/kg, and 8 mg/kg body weight was evaluated using the nuclepore filtration method (with 1 ml blood) and compared in terms of efficacy against the microfilariae (mf) and side-reactions produced. the 6 mg/kg single-dose treatment assessed at six months showed that the effect of dec-c to eliminate microfilariae was closely associated with the pre-treatme ... | 1985 | 3914925 |
| low-density microfilaraemia in subperiodic bancroftian filariasis in samoa. | among microfilaria (mf) carriers of subperiodic bancroftian filariasis in samoa, the low-density level of microfilaraemia was defined as 1-20 mf/ml, and the occurrence of low-density carriers (90 in the present study) was analysed by age, sex, and village in relation to the microfilarial prevalence rate. the low-density carriers were more numerous among those under 20 years and over 60 years old than in other age groups. the ratio of low-density carriers to the total of mf-positive subjects in a ... | 1985 | 3914924 |
| anti-filarial igg antibodies in patients with bancroftian filariasis and tropical pulmonary eosinophilia. | 1985 | 3914453 | |
| wuchereria bancrofti in tanzania: immune reactions to the microfilarial surface, and the effect of diethylcarbamazine upon these reactions. | immune reactions to the surface of microfilariae (mff) of wuchereria bancrofti were investigated among persons living in an endemic filariasis area of tanzania. the sera from a proportion of mff-negative persons contained antibodies to the microfilarial sheath, and a clear correlation was seen between presence of anti-sheath antibodies and the ability of the sera to mediate leucocyte attack on the mff in vitro. the anti-sheath antibodies were mainly of the igg class and to a lesser degree of the ... | 1985 | 3914120 |
| immunological studies in human filariasis. | 1985 | 3913695 | |
| immunodiagnosis of filariasis. | 1985 | 3913694 | |
| [filariasis in foreign immigrants]. | among the patients of the clinic for infectious and tropical diseases of the county hospital st. george leipzig the frequency of the infestment with microfilaria in immigrated foreigners was established. of 1925 examined patients 78 (4.1%) were infested with microfilaria. in 27 patients we succeeded in proving wuchereria bancrofti and in 3 brugia malayi, 43 showed acanthocheilonema perstans, in 5 cases a double infection was present. | 1985 | 3913173 |
| anopheles flavirostris incriminated as a vector of malaria and bancroftian filariasis in banggi island, sabah, malaysia. | seven villages in banggi island, sabah, malaysia, were surveyed four times to evaluate the roles of local mosquitoes as vectors of malaria and bancroftian filariasis. 11 species of anopheles were found biting man. 53.9% of the anophelines caught were an. flavirostris, 27.1% an. balabacensis, 6% an. donaldi and 4.2% an. subpictus. infective malaria sporozoites, probably of human origin, were found in two of 336 an. flavirostris and 12 of 308 an. balabacensis. sporozoites, probably of a non-human ... | 1985 | 3913069 |
| microfilaria in oral cytological smears. report of 2 cases. | 1985 | 3912737 | |
| a preliminary survey of bancroftian filariasis among soldiers in mansoura, egypt. | 1985 | 3912437 | |
| epidemiology of subperiodic bancroftian filariasis in samoa 8 years after control by mass treatment with diethylcarbamazine. | in 1979, a microfilarial prevalence study was conducted in a population of 8385 persons inhabiting 28 villages in samoa using both the nuclepore filtration (np) method (with 1 ml blood) and the fingerprick (fp) method (with 60 mm(3) blood). the overall prevalence rate was 4.5% by the np method and 3.8% by the fp method. the average microfilarial prevalence in males was 2.3 times higher than in females, and the rate among males aged 30 years and over was as high as 20%. the positive cases were fo ... | 1985 | 3912078 |
| specificity of surface molecules of adult brugia parasites: cross-reactivity with antibody from wuchereria, onchocerca and other human filarial infections. | the extent of structural and immunological similarity between surface antigens of three species of brugia filarial parasites was studied by lodogen-mediated surface labelling of adult worms of b. malayi, b. pahangi and b. timori. the close homology and cross-reactivity between these antigens reported in previous surface labelling studies with bolton-hunter reagent, was verified in this system. the surface antigens of adult b. pahangi are also recognised by antibody from patients with wuchereria ... | 1985 | 3911361 |
| [morphology of adult and sub-adult wuchereria bancrofti. differential characteristics among the strains]. | the description of the fourth stage larva of w. bancrofti provides an indication of the direction of morphological evolution in the genus showing in particular that w. kalimantani is more highly evolved than w. bancrofti and constitutes a "capture" by presbytis of the species parasitic in man. no morphological character of adult w. bancrofti distinguishes the geographic origin of the different collections studied. by contrast, the morphological characters of the microfilariae and their biologica ... | 1985 | 3909890 |
| chyluria in immigrants from surinam. | 1985 | 3908953 | |
| relationship between the microfilarial migration and the changes of sleep stage with special reference to rem sleep. | eleven subjects with filariasis were investigated for the relationship between the microfilarial migration and the changes of sleep stage with special reference to rem sleep. tests on ten patients except one case revealed that the sleep of each case showed a highly consistent pattern from the viewpoint of the first night. microfilariae were counted every hour and at each rem stage. from these data, the characteristic findings were observed as follows: 1) microfilarial migration reached the maxim ... | 1985 | 3906825 |
| [use of microfilaria treated with papain in the serodiagnosis of lymphatic filariasis caused by wuchereria bancrofti (var. pacifica)]. | a standardised method for serodiagnosis of lymphatic filariasis w. bancrofti (var. pacifica) was performed. the authors used indirect fluorescent assay with papain treated microfilariae as source of antigen. very high levels of antibodies were obtained in 96% microfilaremic patients. the geometric mean titers were 22.7 for healthy subjects and 605.5 for the filariasis patients. cross reactivity was studied with two subcutaneous and one lymphatic filariasis. the geometric mean titers were 211.1 f ... | 1985 | 3906347 |
| in vivo & in vitro development of wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae. | 1985 | 3902637 | |
| histochemical distribution of acid phosphatase and acetylcholinesterase activity in in vivo and in vitro larval stages of wuchereria bancrofti. | 1985 | 3902631 | |
| uptake of 14c-labelled sugars and amino acids by wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae in vitro. | 1985 | 3902629 | |
| vector mosquitoes of wuchereria bancrofti at bicol region in the philippines. 1. transmission capability. | mosquitoes were surveyed for the capability of filaria transmission at sitio bacolod and barrio salvacion, in bicol region, luzon, philippines. the results of indoor collections and experimental infections showed that the infective rates and the median density of infective larvae per infected mosquito were significantly higher in aedes poicilius than in culex quinquefasciatus. aedes poicilius was found to be the principal vector of bancroftian filariasis in this region. | 1985 | 3900489 |
| bancroftian filariasis and malaria in island and hinterland populations in sabah, malaysia. | an epidemiological survey of filariasis and malaria in banggi island and upper kinabatangan, sabah, revealed microfilarial rates of 7.2% and 8.6% respectively and malaria prevalence of 9.7% and 16.9% respectively. wuchereria bancrofti was a rural nocturnally periodic type with a periodicity index of 137.2 and average peak hour at 01.32 hrs; 9.2% of microfilaremic carriers as compared to 2.4% amicrofilaremic subjects had clinical filariasis. the plasmodium falciparum: p. vivax: p. malariae ratios ... | 1985 | 3898498 |
| electron microscope study on the developmental stages of wuchereria bancrofti in the intermediate host: structure of the digestive tract. | the digestive tract and its development from undifferentiated primordia of first, second and third stage larvae of wuchereria bancrofti are described at the ultrastructural level. in the young first stage larva the future oesophageal cells form a long column surrounding the cuticularized pharyngeal thread. in the midbody region, a small number of cells associated with the inner body represent the intestinal precursor. the large r-cells around the anal vesicle are fully differentiated.--the late ... | 1985 | 3895367 |
| efficacy of diethylcarbamazine in eradicating infection with lymphatic-dwelling filariae in humans. | diethylcarbamazine (dec) is an effective microfilaricidal drug against wuchereria bancrofti, brugia malayi, and brugia timori--the three lymphatic-dwelling filariae infecting humans. however, effectiveness in killing the adult stage of these parasites has been more difficult to establish. the present review of available evidence from the literature suggests that: (1) in addition to being a microfilaricidal agent, dec in conventional dosages effectively kills adult worms of these three parasites ... | 1985 | 3895352 |
| ige responses in human filariasis. iii. specificities of ige and igg antibodies compared by immunoblot analysis. | ige and igg immune responses were qualitatively characterized in three well-defined groups of patients with different clinical manifestations of lymphatic filariasis caused by infection with wuchereria bancrofti; viz. tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (tpe), chronic lymphatic obstruction with elephantiasis (cp), and asymptomatic microfilaremia (mf). a complex filarial antigen preparation extracted from adult filarial parasites was separated on sds-polyacrylamide gels, and was electrophoretically t ... | 1985 | 3891853 |
| detection of filarial antigen in urine by sandwich elisa & its use in diagnosis. | 1985 | 3891607 | |
| [furapyrimidone in the treatment of bancroftian filariasis]. | 1985 | 3891251 | |
| filariasis transmission in samoa. i. relation between density of microfilariae and larval density in laboratory-bred and wild-caught aedes (stegomyia) polynesiensis (marks) and wild-caught aedes (finlaya) samoanus (gruenberg). | transmission experiments of laboratory-bred and wild-caught aedes polynesiensis and wild-caught ae. samoanus on carriers with different levels of microfilaraemia showed that the percentage of mosquitoes infected, the average number and range of larvae found in each infected mosquito were directly proportional to the microfilarial densities in the carrier at the time of feeding. there was no difference between the results for laboratory-bred and wild-caught mosquitoes. aedes polynesiensis fed on ... | 1985 | 3885880 |
| filariasis transmission in samoa. ii. some factors related to the development of microfilariae in the intermediate host. | the developmental period of microfilariae of sub-periodic wuchereria bancrofti in laboratory-bred aedes polynesiensis and ae. samoanus was shorter in the warm season (december to may) than in the cool season (june to november). in the warm season the microfilariae reached the 'sausage' stage in three days, cylindrical second stage in seven days and the infective stage in 12 days after the infecting meal. during the cool season the incubation period was extended to 14 days. microfilariae persisti ... | 1985 | 3885878 |
| wuchereria bancrofti in a haitian immigrant. | 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. | 1985 | 3885410 |
| chronic chyluria: a clinical study of 3 patients. | studies of patients with chyluria or chylothorax have demonstrated significant disruptions of protein, blood and fat metabolism that may result in iron deficiency anemia, hypoproteinemia, hypolipidemia and malnutrition. to document the sequential development of these complications we performed serial clinical and biochemical studies for 2 to 12 years in 3 patients with presumed filarial chyluria whose sole treatment had been diethylcarbamazine. despite the chronic loss of chyle in the urine thes ... | 1985 | 3884843 |
| [filariasis bancrofti]. | 1985 | 3883568 | |
| characterization of an onchocerca-specific dna clone from onchocerca volvulus. | a genomic library of a savanna isolate of onchocerca volvulus was screened to detect recombinant plasmids containing highly repeated dna sequences of this parasite. four recombinant plasmids were identified which hybridized specifically to onchocerca dna, but not to dna from humans, black flies, brugia malayi, b. pahangi, or wuchereria bancrofti. the recombinant plasmids had a low level of homology to dirofilaria immitis. all recombinant plasmids contain related dna sequences based on southern h ... | 1987 | 3661830 |
| the cat infected with brugia pahangi as a model of human filariasis. | the responses of cats to brugia pahangi, which parasitizes them in nature, mimic those of humans to brugia malayi and wuchereria bancrofti in many important respects. it is likely that many of the features of the relationship between host and parasite that can be studied in cats infected with b. pahangi also apply to humans, but for a variety of practical reasons cannot be demonstrated in humans. both immunologically and parasitologically there is a profound difference between b. pahangi-infecte ... | 1987 | 3595322 |
| immunochemical characterization and biosynthesis of major antigens of iodo-bead surface-labeled brugia malayi microfilariae. | the objectives of the present study were to identify and characterize biochemically the major antigens of brugia malayi microfilariae, a filarial parasite that infects humans. igg antibodies in sera of mice which had cleared parasites from the bloodstream reacted with 30, 55, 94 and 150 kda molecules of living microfilariae radioiodinated by the iodo-bead method. sera of humans infected with the related filariae wuchereria bancrofti, loa loa or onchocerca volvulus immunoprecipitated molecules of ... | 1987 | 3574345 |
| parasite antigens in sera and urine of patients with bancroftian and brugian filariasis detected by sandwich elisa with monoclonal antibodies. | we developed a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect circulating parasite antigens in human lymphatic filariasis. the assay utilizes a polyclonal rabbit antifilarial antiserum to capture, and a monoclonal antibody to identify, circulating parasite antigen. using this assay, we found that greater than 95% of sera from microfilaremic donors with bancroftian or brugian filariasis, approximately 60% of sera from microfilaremic patients with hydroceles, chyluria, or elephantiasis, and ... | 1987 | 3555138 |
| attempt to culture wuchereria bancrofti in vitro. | third-stage larvae of wuchereria bancrofti recovered from laboratory raised aedes togoi and anopheles maculatus fed on a human volunteer were recovered by mass dissection methods and introduced into in vitro culture. llc-mk2 cells were used as feeder cells, and the culture medium consisted of rpmi-1640 buffered with hepes and sodium bicarbonate and supplemented with human ab serum. the third-stage larvae molted as early as 12 days and those surviving had all molted by 16 days. the fourth-stage p ... | 1986 | 3554544 |
| identification and partial characterization of a parasite antigen in sera from humans infected with wuchereria bancrofti. | the purpose of this study was to identify and characterize soluble parasite antigens present in sera from humans infected with the filarial nematode wuchereria bancrofti. affinity chromatography and immunoblot methods were used to demonstrate a 200,000 m.w. circulating parasite antigen in sera from infected humans which corresponded to an antigen released by adult w. bancrofti during in vitro culture. two monoclonal antibodies were produced to this antigen by immunizing mice with antigens from d ... | 1987 | 3553330 |
| lymphatic filariasis: in vitro lymphoproliferation in wuchereria bancrofti infection. | 1986 | 3553312 | |
| parasite-specific anergy in human filariasis. insights after analysis of parasite antigen-driven lymphokine production. | the antigen-specific immune unresponsiveness seen in bancroftian filariasis was studied by examining lymphokine production in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc) or pbmc subpopulations from 10 patients with asymptomatic microfilaremia, 13 patients with elephantiasis and 6 normal north americans. in each group of patients, the kinetics of the lymphokine response and the response to mitogens and nonparasite antigens did not differ significantly. in marked contrast, when antigen-induced lymph ... | 1987 | 3553242 |
| [use of elisa to the diagnosis and seroepidemiological survey of filariasis]. | 1986 | 3552293 | |
| filariasis in mirpur area of dhaka city. | 1986 | 3551910 | |
| problems in filariasis control and the need for human behaviour and socio-economic research. | 1986 | 3551094 | |
| [epidemiology of filariasis (onchocerciasis and bancroftosis) in the tala-mokolo region (mandara mountains of north cameroon)]. | the effect of the bancroftian filariasis on the health of the inhabitants are minimal in the study area, where the prevalence of the disease (nocturnal microfilaremia) is 0.4% only. but skin snips harboring onchocerca microfilariae are seen in 12.1% of the sample studied. onchocerciasis skin lesions, low visual acuity and blindness are often seen in the villages where the prevalence is high, among inhabitants more than 40 years of age. simulium damnosum is seldom seen in the area, except in the ... | 1986 | 3549025 |
| [lymphatic filariasis in haiti: historical sequel or future public health problem in this geographic region?]. | wuchereria bancrofti persists in haiti in localized foci, discontinuously distributed. the parasite, transmitted by culex quinquefasciatus, develops in mesoendemic or hyperendemic fashion in urban and suburban areas, on the coastal plains sheltered from the prevailing winds, predominantly in the nord department and around the gulf of la gonave. lymphatic filariasis is a major public health problem. its impact is more evident in males on account of the genital repercussion of the disease. the acu ... | 1986 | 3549024 |
| isolation and evaluation of antigens from microfilaraemia plasma and immune complexes for diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. | 1986 | 3546110 | |
| disc/stick elisa for diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. | 1986 | 3546104 | |
| [comparison of heterologous adult filarial antigens in detecting serum antibodies in bancroftian filariasis patients by indirect fluorescent antibody test]. | 1986 | 3542280 | |
| differentiation of infective larvae of brugia malayi and wuchereria bancrofti by scanning electron microscopy. | a comparative scanning electron microscopy of the infective (third stage) larva of wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi revealed the following features: the lateral caudal papillae in both species are rounded and the terminal papilla is relatively pointed and smaller. the caudal papillae in w. bancrofti are more protruding while in b. malayi they are flattened. the lateral caudal papillae in b. malayi have an indentation around their bases which is absent in w. bancrofti. this is the most usef ... | 1986 | 3541808 |
| antigenic characterization of adult wuchereria bancrofti filarial nematodes. | adult wuchereria bancrofti were recovered from infected presbytis cristatus monkeys and radio-isotope labelled extrinsically with 125i and in vitro with [35s]methionine. 125i labelling of the surface of adult w. bancrofti permitted a comparison between the major surface antigens of this species and those from the related lymphatic filariae, brugia malayi and b. pahangi. all species bear a prominent mr 29,000 surface antigen but among the differences observed were the strongly labelled molecules ... | 1986 | 3540817 |
| [chorio-retinal involvement in a patient with lymphatic filariasis]. | 1986 | 3539247 | |
| the status of human filariasis in relation to clinical signs in endemic areas of the niger delta. | a study was carried out in selected parts of the niger delta basin on human filariasis and its relationship to clinical signs. one hundred and seventy-six (13.0%) of 1351 individuals examined were infected with microfilaria. forty-six percent of microfilaria positive cases had m. perstans; 25.6% had w. bancrofti, 19.3% had l. loa, and 9.0% had o. volvulus. the prevalence of filariasis increased with age. microfilarial density was generally low, 28.4% of infected individuals had counts of 50-100 ... | 1986 | 3539045 |
| coexistent metastatic malignant melanoma cells and wuchereria bancrofti microfilariae in urinary sediment. | 1986 | 3538734 | |
| genital filariasis in minnesota. | genitourinary filariasis is a well-known entity in most tropical areas. however, filariasis cannot be eliminated from the differential diagnosis of testicular, epididymal, or spermatic cord masses in nontropical climes. we report a case of filariasis of the spermatic cord that manifested as an unexplained scrotal mass in a patient in rochester, minnesota. | 1986 | 3538615 |
| [wuchereria bancrofti: value of the diethylcarbamazine provocation test for the diurnal detection of microfilaria carriers]. | sixty-nine of 83 (83%) patients with circulating microfilariae of nocturnally periodic wuchereria bancrofti were detected in daytime blood films following the one-time administration of diethylcarbamazine at a dose per patient of 1 +/- .25 mg/kg of body weight. this method of detecting microfilaria carriers in haiti is recommended as a reasonably sensitive alternative when circumstances make it impossible to conduct a nighttime blood survey. | 1986 | 3533297 |
| [comparative estimate of the rates of infection with sporozoites and filaria in various forms of the anopheles gambiae complex in a village in mali]. | 1986 | 3530084 | |
| relative effect of mass survey and selective survey in mass diethylcarbamazine treatment. | 1986 | 3528276 | |
| [bancroft's filariasis in anjouan (comoro islands)]. | a parasitological survey on bancroftian filariasis has been carried out in anjouan (comoro islands) in 1982. a fall in the microfilaria rate (17.66%) is noticeable comparatively to prod'hon investigations in 1969 (41.25%). prevalence is reduced in the main localities but is still high in remote villages, specially in the inner district of the island. | 1986 | 3524880 |
| vectors of wuchereria bancrofti in the sepik provinces of papua new guinea. | the vectors of wuchereria bancrofti were investigated in two areas of the sepik provinces of papua new guinea. at the village of yauatong, indoor-resting anopheles punctulatus had an infection rate of 47.3% and an infective rate of 3.4%. no infections occurred in 382 culex annulirostris obtained in night-landing catches. at the village of yankok only an. koliensis contained infective larvae but an. punctulatus and cx quinquefasciatus were infected. probit values of the cumulative percentages of ... | 1986 | 3523861 |
| [value of a papain-treated homologous microfilarial antigen in the diagnosis of filariasis due to wuchereria bancrofti var. pacifica. analysis of 237 cases]. | an indirect immunofluorescence assay using papaïn treated microfilariae (ifi-wbp) has been performed to attempt diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. the authors have analysed 237 bed-rests of patients consulting for specific and non specific lymphangitis, chyluria, elephantiasis, hydrocele or just asymptomatic hypereosinophilia. taking into account the clinical aspects, the parasitological and the serological results, they have shown the efficiency of ifi-wbp (titre greater than 80) to diagnose ... | 1986 | 3523109 |
| secreted and surface antigens from larval stages of wuchereria bancrofti, the major human lymphatic filarial parasite. | antigenic proteins of microfilariae and infective larvae of wuchereria bancrofti have been identified by intrinsic and extrinsic radiolabelling, and specific immunoprecipitation with sera from filarial patients. from 125i surface-labelling experiments, the most prominent antigen on both stages is of relative molecular mass (mr) 17 000, while a molecule of similar size is both synthesized and released in vitro following labelling with [35s]methionine. a second similarity between the two stages is ... | 1986 | 3520311 |
| detection of circulating parasite antigen in bancroftian filariasis by counterimmunoelectrophoresis. | we used counterimmunoelectrophoresis (ciep) with rabbit antibodies to dirofilaria immitis and brugia malayi to detect soluble filarial antigen in sera collected in a wuchereria bancrofti-endemic area in south india. filarial antigen was detected in 38 of 38 sera from microfilaremic patients, 3 of 48 sera from amicrofilaremic patients with lymphatic pathology, and 3 of 5 sera from former microfilaria carriers with negative blood examinations 6 months or more after diethylcarbamazine therapy. one ... | 1986 | 3518508 |
| identification of brugia malayi in vectors with a species-specific dna probe. | we evaluated the potential value of a cloned sequence of genomic dna of brugia malayi as a species-specific probe. clone pbm 15 reacted with all stages of 8 different geographic isolates of b. malayi and cross-hybridized with microfilariae of b. timori. it did not hybridize with wuchereria bancrofti or with b. pahangi, w. kalimantani, dirofilaria repens, breinlia booliati or cardiofilaria species, animal filariids that can be sympatric with b. malayi. p32-labeled clone pbm 15 correctly identifie ... | 1986 | 3518507 |
| control of bancroftian filariasis by salt medicated with diethylcarbamazine citrate. | 1986 | 3517181 | |
| [bancroftian filariasis in french polynesia. epidemiologic status and perspectives after a 35-year preventive campaign]. | the authors assess of three decades of struggle against bancroftian filariasis in french polynesia. wuchereria bancrofti var. pacifica, aperiodic filaria, and aedes polynesiensis, mosquito with high parasitologic output, set up a cycle very well adapted to the polynesian environment; after numerous tests, the chemoprophylaxis with diethylcarbamazine (3 mg/kg/half-year) of all the exposed population has been decided, in association with methods of vector-control (use of predatory crustaceans). ho ... | 1986 | 3516427 |
| pathogenesis of lymphatic filariasis in man. | 1986 | 3515791 | |
| microfilariae in fine needle aspirates from epididymal lesions. | microfilariae of wuchereria bancrofti were observed in fine needle aspiration smears from three epididymal nodules, and degenerating microfilariae suggestive of brugia malayi were found in the smears from a fourth case. the smears in all four cases showed a polymorphonuclear inflammatory cell component as well as epithelioid cell granulomata. while blood eosinophilia was present in all four cases, eosinophilia was present in the aspiration smears in only one case. microfilariae could be demonstr ... | 1987 | 3468719 |
| microfilarial surface carbohydrates as a function of developmental stage and ensheathment status in six species of filariids. | the lectin-binding properties of microfilariae of onchocerca volvulus, o. lienalis, brugia pahangi, wuchereria bancrofti, dirofilaria immitis, and monanema (= ackertia) marmotae share a number of characteristics. carbohydrates specific for lectins are associated with the egg shell or sheath. n-acetyl-d-glucosamine is the predominant carbohydrate associated with the ensheathed forms with lesser quantities of d-galactose and/or alpha-lactose and d-galactosamine. the density of these carbohydrates ... | 1988 | 3418456 |
| characterization of a monoclonal antibody against infective larvae of brugia malayi. | monoclonal antibodies were produced following immunization of mice with live infective larvae of brugia malayi. one of these, 46.08.76, is an antibody that promotes adherence of mouse peritoneal macrophages and human peripheral blood leucocytes to the infective larvae of b. malayi and wuchereria bancrofti, respectively, and kills them. fresh normal serum, as a source of complement, augments this effect. the same monoclonal antibody conferred 89% protection to jirds (meriones unguiculatus) agains ... | 1988 | 3384450 |
| characterization of stage-specific antigens of infective larvae of the filarial parasite brugia malayi. | three stages of the filarial parasite brugia malayi (infective third stage larvae, adult worms, and microfilariae) were analyzed for differences in their protein composition by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. comparison of protein profiles of the different stages showed both identical polypeptides (reflecting common proteins) and polypeptides specific for each stage. three polypeptides present only in infective stage larvae were seen at 72 kda at an isoelectric point (pi) of 4.98 (p72), 30 ... | 1988 | 3346549 |
| laboratory parameters in early and late cases of bancroftian filariasis in an endemic area. | 1987 | 3333778 | |
| control of bancroftian filariasis in a rural area through selected treatment with diethylcarbamazine. | 1987 | 3333775 | |
| prophylactic effect of diethylcarbamazine on w. bancrofti filariasis. | 1987 | 3333774 | |
| prophylactic effect of diethylcarbamazine on wuchereria bancrofti filariasis. | 1987 | 3331391 | |
| [effectiveness of mass chemotherapy campaigns with diethylcarbamazine on blood microfilaria of wuchereria bancrofti in mayotte]. | an evaluation of the microfilarial index has been carried out in a randomised population, during april and may 1986, to determine the efficacy of long course mass chemotherapy. a single dose of dec at 6 mg/kg was distributed to the whole population of the island, every 4 months, in 1985 and 1986. the survey was done three months after the treatment. 1,307 thick blood films have been collected in night-time. the prevalence of microfilaremia was 1.9% as compared with 17.1% in 1981 in the condition ... | 1987 | 3329988 |
| fractionation and characterization of urinary filarial antigen in bancroftian filariasis. | urine samples from microfilaraemic patients were concentrated and fractionated by gel chromatography on ultrogel aca 44. four protein fractions labelled as ufa c1, ufa c2, ufa c3 and ufa c4 were tested for filarial antigenicity by sandwich elisa. ufa c1 and ufa c2 showed antigenic activity. on further analysis by sds-page, ufa c1 and ufa c2 showed antigenic components with mw ranging from 10.4 k to 123 k. ufa c1-1 and ufa c2-2 showed high antigen titre in elisa. urinary albumin was observed as a ... | 1987 | 3329520 |
| a mark-recapture experiment with the filariasis vector anopheles punctulatus in papua new guinea. | a capture-recapture experiment with the filariasis vector anopheles punctulatus from papua new guinea (png) is described. eight hundred and ninety-seven engorged females collected indoor resting or in landing catches were released, and 82 were subsequently recaptured. infection rates were higher in recaptured mosquitoes than in unmarked ones. recapture rates declined exponentially with distance from the release site, but an infected female was recaptured 1.8 km from the release site. the estimat ... | 1987 | 3328568 |
| bancroftian filariasis in coastal north trinidad: the effects of mass chemotherapy using spaced doses of diethylcarbamazine citrate on human microfilaraemias and vector infection rates. | the effects of a mass chemotherapy programme using spaced doses of diethylcarbamazine citrate on wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemias and vector infection rates were studied in an isolated rural community of 650 people in north trinidad where a microfilaria rate of 15% had previously been recorded. a single oral dose of 6 mg/kg body weight was given at monthly intervals for one year. after 6 months, 79% (52/66) of persons previously microfilaraemic had become negative. after 12 months the negat ... | 1987 | 3328349 |
| distribution of vectors, transmission indices and microfilaria rates of subperiodic wuchereria bancrofti in relation to village ecotypes in samoa. | aedes polynesiensis and ae. samoanus biting densities and wuchereria bancrofti infection and infective rates were studied in 47 villages throughout the islands of samoa upolu, manono and savaii during 1978-79, and microfilaria (mf) rates were surveyed in 28 of the villages. the mf rate was correlated with both infection and infective rates of ae. polynesiensis in upolu, but not of ae. samoanus. in upolu, ae. polynesiensis was apparently the major vector. it was relatively more abundant in more c ... | 1987 | 3328328 |
| natural infections of wuchereria bancrofti in aedes (stegomyia) polynesiensis and aedes (finlaya) samoanus in samoa. | seven years after the 2nd mass treatment of the population with diethylcarbamazine, transmission of subperiodic wuchereria bancrofti was studied in four villages in samoa during one year by means of biting catches of aedes polynesiensis and a. samoanus. 2 villages were coastal, one inland bush and the other an inland coconut plantation community. overall infection and infective rates from 6702 ae. polynesiensis were 0.84 and 0.27% respectively, and the infection rate from 2858 ae. samoanus, coll ... | 1987 | 3328327 |
| the pathology of lymphoreticular and genital tissues of silvered leaf monkeys (presbytis cristata) experimentally infected with wuchereria bancrofti. | the discovery of the silvered leaf monkey, presbytis cristata, as a suitable experimental host for the human filarial parasite, wuchereria bancrofti, opened the door for major advances in our understanding of the disease caused by this parasite. to study the pathogenesis of bancroftian filariasis in this model, 15 adult p. cristata which had been experimentally infected with 250 infective third-stage larvae of the parasite were examined. after inoculation with larvae, the monkeys were maintained ... | 1987 | 3327870 |
| clinical manifestations of wuchereria bancrofti filariasis in an endemic village in the nile delta. | 1987 | 3327478 | |
| wheat germ agglutinin specifically binds to the surface of infective larvae of wuchereria bancrofti. | 1987 | 3325623 | |
| [filarial multiparasitism in the savannah zone in burkina faso]. | from june 1985 to may 1986, 1.209 consulting patients were examined for filariae in skin and blood. among patients with microfilariae 17% had associations of filarial infections. the multiple infections rate seemed more important in man than woman and increased with age. the results showed that associations were not due to chance only. the frequencies of associations between dipetalonema perstans and onchocerca volvulus at one hand, dipetalonema perstans and wuchereria bancrofti on the other han ... | 1987 | 3323769 |