ON FILARIA BANCROFTI.

Immunoepidemiology of Wuchereria bancrofti infection: parasite transmission intensity, filaria-specific antibodies, and host immunity in two East African communities.

We compared the age profiles of infection and specific antibody intensities in two communities with different transmission levels in East Africa to examine the contribution of humoral responses to human immunity to the vector-borne helminth Wuchereria bancrofti. The worm intensities were higher and exhibited a nonlinear age pattern in a high-transmission community, Masaika, in contrast to the l...

Basic Studies on Filaria and Filariasis

Although Japanese parasitologists and physicians have published many papers on the epidemiology, clinical signs and symptoms, treatment, and control of filariasis, they also conducted basic research on filaria or filariasis using materials obtained from patients and animal models. This basic research includes morphology, immunology, physiology and pharmacology. Recently, most papers are written...

An unusual presentation of Wuchereria bancrofti infection.

Further Observations on the Filaria Sanguinis Hominis in South Formosa

During the four years that have elapsed since the publication of my last paper* on this subject, I have from time to time been engaged in making the further observations which I now venture to record, and simultaneously have lost no opportunity of re-investigating those already communicated, aided in the latter by the invaluable criticisms my former paper elicited. I can only re-affirm my convi...

Studies on Dictyocaulus filaria. I. Modifications of laboratory procedures.

ANDERSON, P. J. S. and VERSTER, ANNA, 1971. Studies on Dictyocaulus filaria. I. Modifications of laboratory procedures. Onderstepoort]. vet. Res. 38 (3), 181-184 (1971). Techniques used in a study of the life-cycle of Dictyocaulus filaria (Rudolphi, 1809) are described. First stage larvae migrate from faecal pellets placed in water. Infective larvae are cultured in clean water at room temperatu...