Filarial Tumors

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...

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

Bancroftian filarial pleural effusion.

This paper describes a case of filarial pleural effusion, the fifth such to be reported. Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti were detected in the pleural fluid on cytological examination. There was a prompt and complete response to treatment with diethylcarbamazine. There were, however, no symptoms and signs of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia nor any peripheral eosinophilia.