| [etiological study of low fertility in eastern gaboon. ii. results according to the geographical distribution and the ethnic group (author's transl)]. | an epidemiological study was conducted in haut-ogooué and ogooué-lolo, and included 875 men and 673 women. the purpose of this article is to precise the geographical distribution of the factors related to low fertility, and to verify the stability of the etiological relations according to the region, the place of residence and the ethny. among men, hydroceles and epididym lesions are more frequent in ogooué-lolo, in small villages, and in forest areas. microfilariae loa-loa and d. perstans has t ... | 1977 | 618031 |
| filariasis due to loa loa and mansonella perstans: distribution in the region of okondja, haut-ogooué province, gabon, with parasitological and serological follow-up over one year. | the prevalence of loa loa and mansonella perstans filariasis has been determined in 6 rural villages in eastern gabon. between 18.9 and 27.2% of people carry l. loa microfilariae with an overall microfilarial rate of 25.1%. the microfilarial rate for m. perstans was more variable, between 33.3 and 62.2% (average 49.1%). no significant difference was seen in the microfilarial rate with age over 15 years for either parasite, but men were infected more frequently than women. anti-l. loa antibody ti ... | 1987 | 3479854 |
| [comparative analysis of 2 diagnostic methods of human loiasis: igg4 serology and nested pcr]. | by evaluating the diagnostic methods developed in our laboratory, the prevalence of loaiosis was estimated among 201 individuals from the province of haut ogooué in gabon using igg4 serology and nested-pcr. the study showed that the prevalence of loaiosis was higher than that described using standard microscopy. igg4-based elisa (enzyme linked immunosorbant assay) using crude extract of loa loa microfilariae showed that 80% (35/44) of microfilaraemic individuals (mf') and 56% (88/157) of amicrof ... | 1999 | 10472442 |
| [relationship between the intensity of loa loa filariasis transmission and prevalence of infections]. | filarial loiasis differs from other filariases in that most infected subjects are amicrofilaremic. this difference raises the notion of occult infection. the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the intensity of transmission and incidence of infection. for this purpose we determined the incidence of loiasis both microscopically and by pcr in 201 subjects from three villages in the province of haut ogooue in gabon. intensity of transmission, expressed in atp (annual transmis ... | 1999 | 10701202 |