| effect of diethylcarbamazine on hiv load, cd4%, and cd4/cd8 ratio in hiv-infected adult tanzanians with or without lymphatic filariasis: randomized double-blind and placebo-controlled cross-over trial. | we assessed the effect of anti-filarial treatment (diethylcarbamazine, dec) on hiv load, cd4%, and cd4/cd8 ratio in hiv-positive individuals with and without infection with the filarial parasite wuchereria bancrofti in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over trial. the study was conducted in tanga region, tanzania, in 2002 and involved 27 adults. a significant decrease in hiv load (54%) and an insignificant increase in cd4% were observed in the hiv-positive individuals with fil ... | 2007 | 17827369 |
| clinical and parasitological aspects of bancroftian filariasis in hale, northeast tanzania. | to document the endemicity characteristic of bancroftian filariasis and to validate the effect of blood sampling time adjustment method on microfilarial intensity in relation to sex and age. | 2000 | 11320769 |
| chronic pulmonary disorders, including tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, in villages with endemic lymphatic filariasis in tanga region and in tanga town, tanzania. | to investigate the occurrence of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (tpe), studies were undertaken in 3 villages with endemic lymphatic filariasis in the coastal area of tanga region, tanzania, and in the outpatient clinic of bombo regional hospital in tanga town; 73 persons from the villages and 104 from the outpatient clinic with a history of lung disease suggestive of tpe were included in the study. following clinical examination, lung function tests and chest x-rays were performed. total leucoc ... | 1995 | 7570881 |
| the survival in nature of wuchereia-infected anopheles funestus giles in north-eastern tanzania. | hungry anopheles funestus females were caught in cdc light traps positioned overnight in village houses in which the occupants were protected by bed nets. the sampling was performed in six huts near muheza, in north-eastern tanzania, september to november 1972. parous, unfed mosquitoes were carefully examined, usually under phase-contrast optics, for the presence of developing wuchereria bancrofti larvae. because a. funestus seek blood meals at three-day intervals, most filariae were three, six, ... | 1977 | 327630 |
| cross-sectional relationship between hiv, lymphatic filariasis and other parasitic infections in adults in coastal northeastern tanzania. | the relationship between hiv, lymphatic filariasis, malaria (plasmodium falciparum) and intestinal helminths (ascaris lumbricoides, trichuris trichiura and hookworm) was assessed in a cross-sectional study conducted in 2002 among 907 adults in tanga region, tanzania. overall prevalences were 7.9% for hiv, 43.5% for wuchereria bancrofti-specific circulating filarial antigen (cfa), 12.3% for p. falciparum, 1.2% for a. lumbricoides, 7.1% for t. trichiura and 75.7% for hookworm. anaemia was assessed ... | 2006 | 16324731 |