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2. Microfilaruria in onchocerciasis. A clinical and epidemiological follow-up study in the Republic of Chad.

Author

Buck AA, Anderson RI, Colston JA Jr, Wallace CK, Connor DH, Harman LE Jr, Donner MW, and Ganley JP

Subjects
Adolescent, Adult, Chad, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Onchocerciasis epidemiology, Skin Diseases, Parasitic epidemiology, Skin Diseases, Parasitic etiology, Urologic Diseases epidemiology, Onchocerca isolation & purification, Onchocerciasis urine, Urologic Diseases etiology
Abstract

Microfilariae of O. volvulus were recovered from the urine of 11% of the residents of a village in the Republic of Chad where onchocerciasis was holoendemic. A follow-up study of the same population 3 years after the original investigation revealed that microfilaruria was still present and that living microfilariae of O. volvulus could be recovered from small urine samples obtained by high catherization of the ureters. Radiological changes consistent with chronic pyelitis were found in 4 out of 14 persons with microfilaruria who were examined by retrograde pyelography. The recovery of microfilariae in the urine was associated with the intensity of the infection, as determined by counts of microfilariae in skin snips and the number of onchocercomata. A systematic comparison for differences between onchocerciasis patients with and without microfilaruria revealed that the microfilaruria patients had a low weight: height ratio, deficient antibody responses in indirect haemagglutination tests with O. volvulus antigen, elevated serum aminotransferase levels, and reduced systolic blood pressure.

Published
1971

4. Onchocerciasis: some new epidemiologic and clinical findings. Results of an epidemiologic study in the Republic of Chad.

Author

Buck AA, Anderson RI, Kawata K, and Hitchcock JC Jr

Subjects
Adolescent, Adult, Black or African American, Black People, Chad, Child, Child, Preschool, Epidemiologic Methods, Hemagglutination Tests, Humans, Infant, Middle Aged, Onchocerca isolation & purification, Onchocerciasis diagnosis, Onchocerciasis urine, Radiography, Thoracic, Skin Diseases, Parasitic diagnosis, Snails, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary complications, Onchocerciasis epidemiology
Published
1969
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