| imported filarial infections in tasmania. | 2 cases of imported filariasis were disgnosed in tasmania and are reported. the 1st, in a 32 year old female english immigrant who had spent 2 years in west africa, was examined and the microfilariae of loa loa were discovered; subsequent treatment with diethylcarbamazine was successful. the 2nd patient, a 20 year old male from the maldive islands, had travelled to ceylon 6 months previously. following a series of diagnostic tests, a diagnosis of tropical eosinophilia was made and the patient ... | 1980 | 6932559 |