| [effectiveness of mass chemotherapy campaigns with diethylcarbamazine on blood microfilaria of wuchereria bancrofti in mayotte]. | an evaluation of the microfilarial index has been carried out in a randomised population, during april and may 1986, to determine the efficacy of long course mass chemotherapy. a single dose of dec at 6 mg/kg was distributed to the whole population of the island, every 4 months, in 1985 and 1986. the survey was done three months after the treatment. 1,307 thick blood films have been collected in night-time. the prevalence of microfilaremia was 1.9% as compared with 17.1% in 1981 in the condition ... | 1987 | 3329988 |
| [a survey of filariasis in the comoro islands, in great comoro and mohéli]. | the filariasis of w. bancrofti with nocturnal periodicity is, together with malaria, the principal endemic disease in the comoros islands. well studied on mayotte island, which remained a french territorial collectivity, its prevalence and distribution are less known in the grand comoros, anjouan and moheli islands which form the federal islamic republic of the comoros. the study of the nocturnal microfilariae in the grand comoros and moheli in 1987 is the opportunity to assess the situation of ... | 1989 | 2663209 |
| [ecology of culex pipiens fatigans larvae in an area of high endemicity of bancroftian filariasis (author's transl)]. | culex pipiens fatigans in the main vector of bancroftian filariasis in the mayotte island (comores) where it imposes an important health problem. the breeding-sites of c. p. fatigans are either man-made (latrines, cesspools, various containers), or natural (polluted water of estuaries of some rivers). the man-made breeding-sites are not similarly distributed in the different localities of the island. their distribution varies according to the customs of the inhabitants, size and site of the comm ... | 1975 | 1096384 |
| [bancroft filariasis in comores archipelago (immunologic study)]. | an immunological study has complemented the epidemiological survey on bancroft filariosis in the mayotte island (comores) carried out by brunhes et al., 1971. the search for antibodies to dipatolonema viteae and setaria labiotopapilosa was performed by means of electrophoresis and immunofluorescence in 87 individuals and 2 hydrocele fluids. immunoelectrophoresis confirmed the high endemicity ratio: 57 o/o of the individuals presented 1 to 7 precipitating lines; with immunofluorescence 55 o/o of ... | 1976 | 791529 |