| efficient assessment of filariasis endemicity by screening for filarial antigenaemia in a sentinel population. | we have previously reported that a monoclonal antibody-based antigen detection assay (ad12) is sensitive and specific for bancroftian filariasis in egypt. the purpose of the present study was to demonstrate the use of this assay in a sentinel population as a means of efficiently screening for filariasis endemicity. antigen testing was performed with finger-prick blood collected during the day from 743 schoolchildren (ages 11-16 years). the school draws students from 5 villages in qalubia governo ... | 1994 | 8153997 |
| vector competence of autogenous and anautogenous culex pipiens mosquitoes for wuchereria bancrofti. | vector competence of autogenous and anautogenous culex pipiens; derived from north sinai governorate, egypt, for the human filaria parasite wuchereria bancrofti was studied. after feeding on the same microfilaremic volunteers both biotypes were readily infected with the parasite (infection rates > 80%) and supported its development to the infective stage within 11 - 12 days. infective rates of both autogenous and anautogenous mosquitoes were similar (> 95%). however, autogenous cx. pipiens devel ... | 1994 | 17212004 |
| the resurgence of lymphatic filariasis in the nile delta. | a study of 325,000 residents of 314 villages in six governorates of the nile delta area of egypt revealed that the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis increased from < 1% in 1965 to > 20% in 1991, especially in the governorates of qalyubiya, monufiya, dakhaliya, and giza. the distribution of the communites with endemic filariasis is focal. clusters of villages with high prevalences are surrounded by others in which the disease is absent, although their environmental, social, and agricultural feat ... | 1993 | 8440037 |