| parasitic infections in humans in west kalimantan (borneo), indonesia. | a survey was carried out among inhabitants of eight villages in west kalimantan province (borneo), whereby blood smears were examined for malaria, stools examined for intestinal parasites and sera tested by the indirect hemagglutination test for antibodies to entamoeba histolytica and toxoplasma gondii. the prevalence of malaria among 3017 people examined was 5.6% (plasmodium vivax 2.8%, plasmodium falciparum 2.8%). brugia malayi microfilariae were found in 3.6% and wuchereria bancrofti in 0.3%. ... | 1976 | 788263 |
| filariasis in west kalimantan (borneo), indonesia. | a survey was carried out among persons residing in 8 villages in the province of west kalimantan, indonesia to determine the prevalence of filariasis. finger tip blood smears were obtained at night from over 3,000 people and microfilariae of brugia malayi were found in 108 (3.5%) and wuchereria bancrofti in 10 (0.3%). most b. malayi (96 carriers) was found in kakap, a village near the coast, 20 km from the provincial capital of pontianak. nine of 10 cases of w. bancrofti were located in pahauman ... | 1977 | 26980 |