FILARIAL PERIODICITY

Filarial Periodicity

Thu periodicity of the fever in infections with \ \ Filaria bancrofti in this country is not strictly periodic or regular. The parturition cycles of different adult female worms may fail to be simultaneous, whilst some parturition cycles may fail to produce fever or other symptoms. Every attack does not always mean fever, nor is every filarial attack of fever followed by lymphatic manifestation...

Periodicity and Almost-periodicity

Filarial Lymphangitis

Filarial Disease

collected from infected houses in Georgetown, British Guiana, to the number of 1,500. Of these, 237 were Stegomyia fasciata, 105 Cellia argyrostris and 1,131 Culex fatigans. Only one Stegomyia was infected, while 7.4 per cent, of all Culex fatigans were found to be infected. No other mosquito was infected, so that it appears that Culex fatigans is the only carrier of Filaria bancrofti of import...

Filarial Eosinophiliosis