Lymphatic filariasis continues to cause severe morbidity and economic loss. The World Health Assembly (WHA) has passed a resolution to eliminate this disease by 2020. The major thrust of the elimination strategy is interrupting transmission by anti-parasitic treatment of entire communities. However, both vector density and community microfilaria load (CMFL) influence the intensity of transmissi...

In developing nations, lymphatic filariasis is a significant public health concern. Wuchereria bancrofti species, which are morphologically recognised as sheathed parasites with tail tip free of nuclei, responsible for almost 90% the cases in India. Microfilariae have been found wide range other body fluids well urine samples from patients chylous and achylous hematuria. We report case microfil...

The technique involved in studying the activation of lymphocytes in the resting form, and their recognition as dividing and functional cells was studied, using phase contrast and agar as well as fluid culture. Standardization of technical methods was found to be essential, and the effect of variables was studied. Lymphocytes from human umbilical cord vein blood were found to be spontaneously ac...

A total of 315 birds representing 75 species (23 families) from Villavicencio and San Miguel (Meta, Colombia) were examined for haematozoa. Fifty birds (15.9%) harbored blood parasites. Microfilariae were the most common haematozoans encountered, followed by species of the genera Haemoproteus, Plasmodium and Trypanosoma. This survey included 15 new host-parasite records and 8 species of birds t...

in the endemic focus of kala-azar, in meshkin shahr area, dog dirofilariasls is a metazoan infestation with high endemicity. this study was carried out to indicate prevalence of dirofilariasis in dogs in that district. by using cluster sampling method, from 6000 dogs, 300 dogs were selected by cluster sampling and samples were examined for the presence of microfilaria. we examined tick smear la...

6th June, 1925.?No response to quinine (grs. 5 t.d.s.) given from 2nd June, 1925, 9-30 p.m. Temperature 106?F. Intravenous injection of quinine bihydrochloride (grs. 3). 7th June, 1925.?8 a.;m. Temperature 98.6?F. Intravenous injection of quinine bihydrochloride (grs. 2i). Urine now distinctly "milky," showed marked chyluria and the microscope revealed a large number of microfilariae. The quini...