| filariasis in the kaiyamba chiefdom, moyamba district sierra leone: an epidemiological and clinical study. | in a cross-sectional epidemiological and clinical study of human filariasis, 630 individuals were examined for onchocerca volvulus, wuchereria bancrofti and mansonella perstans infections in five communities in the kaiyamba chiefdom, moyamba district, sierra leone. the overall prevalence of o. volvulus infection in males 144(39.1%) and females 94(35.9%) was not significantly different and the sex prevalence rate between communities was also not significant (g = 3, d.f. = 4, p > 0.05). prevalence ... | 1996 | 8668763 |