Detection of circulating filarial antigen has now emerged as an alternative method for the diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis. We compared two antigen detection assays, an Og4C3 ELISA and an ICT (immunochromatography) Filariasis test, for the diagnosis of Wuchereria bancrofti infections in migrant Myanmar workers in Tak province, Western Thailand. A total of 337 Myanmars participated in this s...

BACKGROUND This study prospectively assessed the occurrence of clinical and subclinical schistosomiasis, strongyloidiasis, filariasis, and toxocariasis, and the screening value of eosinophilia in adult short-term travelers to helminth-endemic countries. METHODS Visitors of a pre-travel health advice centre donated blood samples for serology and blood cell count before and after travel. Sample...

Shandong Province used to be the highly endemic area of Wuchereria bancrofti. Culex pipiens pallens was the main mosquito vector. After about 30 years of large scale anti-filariasis control campaign, filariasis was controlled throughout the province in 1983. Since then, extensive cross-sectional and consecutive longtitudinal surveillances have been carried out. Parasitological and entomological...

To assess the performance of the immunochromatographic test for filariasis, adult Wuchereria bancrofti worms were incubated under different conditions. The tests were strongly positive with incubation fluids from both living and mechanically damaged females. Negative results were observed with incubation fluids from all male worms and from intact dead females. Key-words: Wuchereria bancrofti. A...

The geographical information system (GIS) and available survey data (both from the Filariasis Annual Reports, 1985-1999 and from the published literature) for the microfilarial infection rates are used to develop the first subdistrict-level endemicity maps of lymphatic filariasis in Narathiwat Province. The maps demonstrated the subdistrict-level geographical distribution of filariasis and the ...

BACKGROUND: The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, launched following World Health Assembly Resolution 50.29 (WHA 50.29), has been facilitated in its progress by new research findings, drug donations, the availability of diagnostic tools, disability management strategies to help those already suffering and the development of partnerships. The strategy recommended by the World H...

BACKGROUND Papua New Guinea is the only endemic country in the Western Pacific Region that has not yet introduced a countrywide programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. However, on Misima Island in Milne Bay Province, government and private sectors have collaborated to implement a pilot elimination programme. Although interim evaluation indicated that the programme has been parasitologicall...

Latar belakang: Filariasis merupkan penyakit menular menahun yang disebabkan oleh cacing Filaria dan menyerang saluran limfe serta kelenjar getah bening sehingga menyebabkan gejalah akut kronis ditularkan berbagai jenis nyamuk. Puskesmas Tena Teke ditemukan 35 peristiwa pada tahun 2019.
 Tujuan: untuk mengetahui gambaran faktor lingkungan fisik, sosial, budaya terhadap kejadian filariasis ...

The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) has two major goals: to interrupt transmission of the parasite and to provide care for those who suffer the devastating clinical manifestations of the disease (morbidity control). This latter goal addresses three filariasis-related conditions: acute inflammatory episodes; lymphoedema; and hydrocele. Research during the last decade h...

Filariasis occurs as a result of parasitic infection by mosquito vector. affects the lymph and causes blood loss in body. is uncured. Therefore, prevention measures are needed to reduce number deaths. generally does not cause death directly rarely occurs. However, this results an excess zeros data, which overdispersion. The data used were obtained from book Indonesia Health Profile 2021, covers...