STUDIES ON MALAYAN FILARIASIS IN CHE-JU IS., KOREA

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  • KATAMINE Daisuke
    Department of Parasitology, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
  • SATO Atsuo
    Department of Medical Zoology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University
  • TADA Isao
    Department of Medical Zoology, Kanazawa Medical University
  • AOKI Yoshiki
    Department of Parasitology, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

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  • 韓国済州島のマレー糸状虫に関する研究
  • 1 Epidemiology of malayan filariasis in some endemic areas as revealed by the skin test
  • 1 流行地の皮内反応から見たマレー糸状虫症の疫学

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The authors confirmed the high incidence of malayan filariasis among the villagers of southern coast of Che-ju Is., Korea. The epidemiological analysis revealed that the inhabitants living in Coast region of Wimi-l-Ri village were much more affected by the filarial infection than those in Inland region not only in mf rate and mf density, but even in the skin reactivities in children. This finding will be explained by the ecological behavior of vector mosquito, Aedes togoi, bred in the sea shore. The fall of filarial transmission due to the mass treatment of microfilaria carriers in 1970 resulted in the reduction of average wheal-size in skin-test of children 2 years later.

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