Several cases of encephalopathy recorded in Cameroon since 1991 were in patients with very high, coincident, #Loa loa$ microfilaraemias who had been treated with ivermectin for onchocerciasis. There was thus an urgent need to identify those areas where loiasis is hyperendemic, and where specific monitoring procedures should be developed if large-sc...
The functional symptomatology of loiasis was studied in 101 Congolese subjects living in a village in a highly endemic area. 27.7 % of them were carriers of #Loa loa$ microfilariae. 5.9 % were infected with #Mansonella perstans$. No subjects were found to have dermal microfilariae. In anamnesis, 51.5 % of them reported episodes of Calabar swellings...
In an endemic area, #Loa loa$ and #Mansonella perstans microfilariae$ were detected by the examination of 5 ml blood in respectively 7.4 and 26.2 % of subjects who would have been erroneously considered amicrofilaraemic by the conventional method of two thick blood smears (40 micro l blood). Correction factors to be applied to the results obtained ...
