Long-term effect of diethylcarbamazine citrate on microfilaraemia status in treated individuals

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 108, Issue OCT., 1998, Pages 134-138

  Khan, A M ^a   Dutta, P ^a   Khan, S A ^a   Baruah, N K ^a   Sarma, C K ^a   Mahanta, J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bancroftian filariasis; Diethylcarbamazine citrate; Microfilaraemia; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLEARANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REINFECTION; SURVIVAL; WORM; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIREMIA;

EID: 0031725184     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ottesen EA. Efficacy of diethylcarbamazine in eradicating infection with lymphatic-dwelling filariae in humans. Rev Infect Dis 1985; 7 : 341-56.
2. Lymphatic filariasis : The disease and its control. Fifth report of the WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis. Tech Rep Ser No. 821. Geneva : World Health Organisation, 1992 : 42-8.
3. Rao CK, Sen T, Roychowdhury SP, Dutta KK, Das M, Rao CK, et al. Rural filariasis control with diethylcarbamazine. J Commun Dis 1978; 10 : 194-6.
4. Rajagopalan PK, Pani SP. Community drug trials for lymphatic filariasis control in India. Natl Med J India 1991; 4 : 71-6.
5. Raina VK, Kosare GJ, Das M, Rao CK. Impact of diethylcarbamazine treatment of selective microfilaria carriers and filarial cases under rural filaria control project in Valsad district, Gujarat. J Commun Dis 1984; 16 : 247-9.
6. Sharma SP, Biswas H, Pandey DS, Pandey RS, Das M, Sharma GK. Control of bancroftian filariasis in a rural area through selected treatment with diethylcarbamazine. J Commun Dis 1987; 19 : 322-5.
7. Rajagopalan PK, Krishnamoorthy K, Panickar KN, Sabesan S. Epidemiological assessment of different intervention measures for the control of malayan filariasis in Shertallai, South India. Vector Control Res Centre Misc Publ 1990; 17 : 1-9.
8. Basu PC. Filariasis in Assam state. Indian J Malariol 1957; 11 : 293-308.
9. Population exposed to the risk of filariasis, microfilaria carriers and chronic filaria cases as in 1989. In : Health information of India. New Delhi : Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India, 1990 : 148.
10. Dutta P, Gogoi BK, Chelleng PK, Bhattacharyya DR, Khan SA, Goswami BK, et al. Filariasis in the labour population of a tea state in Upper Assam. Indian J Med Res 1995; 101 : 245-6.
11. WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis, Third Report, WHO Tech Rep Ser No. 542, Geneva : World Health Organisation, 1974 : 9-10.
12. McMahon JE, Marshall TF, De C, Vaughan JP, Abaru DE. Bancroftian filariasis : a comparison of microfilarae counting techniques using counting chamber, standard slide and membrane (nucleopore) filtration. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 1979; 73 : 457-64.
13. Simonsen PE, Meyrowitsch DW, Makunde WH. Bancroftian filariasis : long term effect of the DEC provocative day test on microfilaraemia. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1997; 91 : 290-3.
14. Eberhard ML, Lammie PJ, Dickinson CM, Roberts JM. Evidence of non susceptibility to diethylcarbamazine in Wuchereria bancrofti. J Infect Dis 1991; 163 : 1157-60.
15. Lammie PJ, Leiva LE, Ruff AJ, Eberhard ML, Lowrie RC, Katz SP. Bancroftian filariasis in Haiti : preliminary characterization of the immunological responsiveness of microfilaremic individuals. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1988; 38 : 125-9.
16. Lammie PJ, Eberhard ML, Leiva LE, Lowrie RC Jr, Katz SP. The effect of diethylcarbamazine treatment of bancroftian filariasis on the immunological reactivity of microfilaraemic individuals. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1988; 82 : 726-9.
17. Ottesen EA. Description mechanism and control of reactions to treatment in human filariasis. In : Filariasis. Ciba Foundation Symposium No. 127. 1987 : 265-83.
18. Eberhard ML, Dickerson JW, Hightower AW, Lammie PJ. Bancroftian filariasis : long term effects of treatment with diethylcarbamazine in a Haitian population. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1991; 45 : 728-33.
19. Eberhard ML. Longevity of microfilariae following removal of the adult worms. Trop Med Parasitol 1986; 37 : 361-3.
20. Figueredo-Silva J, Jungmann P, Noroes J, Piessens WF, Coutinho A, Brito C, et al. Histological evidence for adulticidal effect of low doses of diethylcarbamazine in bancroftian filariasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1996; 90 : 192-4.
21. Dreyer G, Amaral F, Noroes J, Medeiros Z, Addiss D. A new tool to assess the adulticidal efficacy in vivo of antifilarial drugs for bancroftian filariasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1995; 89 : 225-6.
22. Beaver PC, Orihel TC, Johnson MH. Dipetalonema viteae in the experimentally infected jird, Meriones unguiculatus. II : Microfilaremia in relation to worm burden. J Parasitol 1974; 60 : 310-5.