Filariasis in melanesia: Observations at Rabaul relating to incidence and vectors
- 1 December 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 44 (3) , 291-306
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(50)90056-3
Abstract
Natives of Makada I. and of Matty I. (near New Guinea) show nearly twice the incidence of infection with the microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti as do the natives of New Guinea (35.1%, 32.9%, 19.4%, respectively), although clinical elephantiasis is relatively rare. The strain of W. bancrofti present is primarily of the nocturnal variety, and seems to be carried by Anopheles punctulatus farauti.Keywords
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