| awareness of health personnel about lymphatic filariasis and mass drug administration in kerala state. | the mass drug administration programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis with dec in kerala was started in 1997, extended to all the 11 endemic districts by 2005. since the beginning of mass drug administration, the drug consumption rate was found to be not satisfactory. the reasons for noncompliance indicated that the community is not fully convinced about the programme. the knowledge of the medical and para medical workers is certainly a factor in the success of implementation of the programme ... | 2008 | 19127667 |
| socio economic factors as indicators of various risk groups for bancroftian filariasis, cochin, kerala, india. | | 2007 | 18697586 |
| current status of filariasis in chavakad taluk, trichur district, kerala. | a sample survey using parasitological, clinical and entomological indicators was carried out in all the 18 administrative units of chavakad taluk, trichur district, kerala, india to assess the current filariasis situation. cluster sampling procedure was followed to screen individuals. both wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi species were found to be prevalent in this taluk. microfilaria (mf) carriers with w. bancrofti were detected in eight areas while b. malayi was recorded only from one are ... | 1997 | 10085639 |
| mattancherry urban agglomeration, a diminishing focus of lymphatic filariasis in kerala. | parasitological survey conducted recently in mattancherry, kerala showed a low prevalence of microfilariae (mf), with a mf rate of 1.81%, compared to that of 1956 when the mf rate was 14.7%. no brugian infection was encountered in the present investigation, though both bancroftian and brugian infections were reported earlier. culex quinquefasciatus, the vector of bancroftian filariasis was the most predominant (93.3%) mosquito species, and its infection and infectivity rates were 0.76% and 0.54% ... | 1996 | 8973015 |
| epidemiology of bancroftian filariasis in a semi-urban community of kerala state. | a community-based longitudinal study was initiated in 1983 in a semi-urban area, endemic for bancroftian filariasis to determine the incidence and prevalence, natural history and clinical pattern of filarial infection and also to study the impact of control measures on it. the base-line filariometric indices observed during the initial clinico-parasitological survey and entomological observations made during the first 12 months of this study are highlighted in this paper. 5.5 per cent of the exa ... | 1989 | 2700479 |
| presence of wolbachia endosymbionts in microfilariae of wuchereria bancrofti (spirurida: onchocercidae) from different geographical regions in india. | in view of the recent discovery of rickettsial endosymbionts, wolbachia in lymphatic filarial parasites, wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi and subsequently of their vital role in the survival and development of the latter, antibiotics such as tetracycline are being suggested for the treatment of lymphatic filariasis, by way of eliminating the endosymbiont. but, it is essential to assess their presence in parasites from areas endemic for lymphatic filariasis before such a new control tool is ... | 2003 | 15049082 |
| a preliminary note concerning development of larval stages of brugia malayi and wuchereria bancrofti in the bedbug in coastal filarial areas of kerala state, south india. | | 1960 | 13689282 |