| survival of loa loa following transplantation from drills (mandrillus leucophaeus) into jirds (meriones unguiculatus): parasitology and pathology. | two drills infected with loa loa maintained a microfilaraemia for four and a half years ranging from less than 1 mf/100 microliters to 1150 mf/100 microliters. no significant tissue reactions to the adult worms were seen at autopsy. adult worms were transplanted into the peritoneal cavities of naive jirds when a persistent microfilaraemia first developed by 17 days. retransplantation of adult worms into naive jirds produced a microfilaraemia and microfilariae in the peritoneal cavities of three ... | 1982 | 6962569 |