| | Meeting Report Final report of the Conference on the eradicability of Onchocerciasis Yankum Dadzie, Maria Neira, and Donald Hopkins PMCID: PMC150378 Perspectives Lymphoedema: Pathophysiology and management in resource-poor settings - relevance for lymphatic filariasis control programmes Babar Vaqas and Terence J Ryan PMCID: PMC153482 The Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis: A Strategy for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development – Perspectives from the Philippines Jaime Z Galvez Tan PMCID: PMC183860 Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis) Elimination: A public health success and development opportunity David Molyneux PMCID: PMC200964 Reviews Impact of ivermectin on onchocerciasis transmission: assessing the empirical evidence that repeated ivermectin mass treatments may lead to elimination/eradication in West-Africa Gerard JJM Borsboom, Boakye A Boatin, Nico JD Nagelkerke, Hyacinthe Agoua, Komlan LB Akpoboua, E William Soumbey Alley, Yeriba Bissan, Alfons Renz, Laurent Yameogo, Jan HF Remme, and J Dik F Habbema PMCID: PMC156613 Behaviour of filariae: morphological and anatomical signatures of their life style within the arthropod and vertebrate hosts Odile Bain and Simon Babayan PMCID: PMC305371 Short Papers Impact on the quality of life of lymphoedema patients following introduction of a hygiene and skin care regimen in a Guyanese community endemic for lymphatic filariasis: A preliminary clinical intervention study T McPherson PMCID: PMC149435 Spatial variation of Anopheles-transmitted Wuchereria bancrofti and Plasmodium falciparum infection densities in Papua New Guinea Neal D Alexander, Rana A Moyeed, Phil J Hyun, Zachary B Dimber, Moses J Bockarie, Julian Stander, Bryan T Grenfell, James W Kazura, and Michael P Alpers PMCID: PMC212440 Research Animated documentation of the filaria dance sign (FDS) in bancroftian filariasis Sabine Mand, Yeboah Marfo-Debrekyei, Matthias Dittrich, Kerstin Fischer, Ohene Adjei, and Achim Hoerauf PMCID: PMC151680 Some observations on the effect of Daflon (micronized purified flavonoid fraction of Rutaceae aurantiae) in bancroftian filarial lymphoedema LK Das, G Subramanyam Reddy, and SP Pani PMCID: PMC153483 Human immune responses to infective stage larval-specific chitinase of filarial parasite, Onchocerca volvulus, Ov-CHI-1. Yang Wu, Gillian Egerton, James S McCarthy, Thomas B Nutman, and Albert E Bianco PMCID: PMC153484 Mapping of lymphatic filariasis in Nepal Jeevan B Sherchand, Valérie Obsomer, Garib Das Thakur, and Marcel Hommel PMCID: PMC153485 Evidence against Wolbachia symbiosis in Loa loa Helen F McGarry, Ken Pfarr, Gill Egerton, Achim Hoerauf, Jean-Paul Akue, Peter Enyong, Samuel Wanji, Sabine L Kläger, Albert E Bianco, Nick J Beeching, and Mark J Taylor PMCID: PMC161820 Obligatory symbiotic Wolbachia endobacteria are absent from Loa loa Dietrich W Büttner, Samuel Wanji, Chiara Bazzocchi, Odile Bain, and Peter Fischer PMCID: PMC161789 PCR and Mosquito dissection as tools to monitor filarial infection levels following mass treatment David S Goodman, Jean-Nicolas Orelus, Jacquelin M Roberts, Patrick J Lammie, and Thomas G Streit PMCID: PMC169178 Treatment of co-infection with bancroftian filariasis and onchocerciasis: a safety and efficacy study of albendazole with ivermectin compared to treatment of single infection with bancroftian filariasis William H Makunde, Leo M Kamugisha, Julius J Massaga, Rachel W Makunde, Zakana X Savael, Juma Akida, Fred M Salum, and Mark J Taylor PMCID: PMC293471 |
