Lymphatic Filariasis: Treatment, Control and Elimination

Infectious Diseases

1992 • 2,868 citations

CONQUERING THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN OF MALARIA: WHAT’S NEW, WHAT’S NEEDED: A SUMMARY

2004 • 689 citations

Malnutrition and parasitic helminth infections

2000 • 673 citations

Strategies and tools for the control/elimination of lymphatic filariasis.

1997 • 634 citations

The ICT Filariasis Test: A rapid-format antigen test for diagnosis of bancroftian filariasis

1997 • 446 citations

Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial

2005 • 288 citations

The Economic Burden of Lymphatic Filariasis in India

2000 • 275 citations

Live Adult Worms Detected by Ultrasonography in Human Bancroftian Filariasis

1994 • 254 citations

Pathogenesis of Lymphatic Disease in Bancroftian Filariasis:

2000 • 251 citations

Human Filariasis. A Global Survey of Epidemiology and Control.

1977 • 235 citations

The public health importance of Ascaris lumbricoides

2000 • 214 citations

Worms can worsen malaria: towards a new means to roll back malaria?

2005 • 212 citations

Treatment strategies underpinning the global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

2005 • 211 citations

The public health importance of hookworm disease

2000 • 200 citations

Effect of yearly mass drug administration with diethylcarbamazine and albendazole on bancroftian filariasis in Egypt: a comprehensive assessment

2006 • 186 citations

Assessment of the efficacy of diethylcarbamazine on adult Wuchereria bancrofti in vivo

1997 • 176 citations

Efficacy of Diethylcarbamazine in Eradicating Infection with Lymphatic-Dwelling Filariae in Humans

1985 • 174 citations

Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia

1992 • 173 citations

INTESTINAL HELMINTH INFECTIONS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED INCIDENCE OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA IN THAILAND

2002 • 172 citations

Mathematical modelling and the control of lymphatic filariasis

2004 • 167 citations

Morbidity management in the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis: a review of the scientific literature

2007 • 166 citations

Lymphatic filariasis elimination: progress in global programme development

2002 • 162 citations

Lymphatic filariasis: an infection of childhood

2001 • 159 citations

“Neglected” diseases but unrecognised successes—challenges and opportunities for infectious disease control

2004 • 158 citations

Albendazole Treatment of Children with Ascariasis Enhances the Vibriocidal Antibody Response to the Live Attenuated Oral Cholera Vaccine CVD 103‐HgR

2000 • 157 citations

A comparison of the efficacy of single doses of albendazole, ivermectin, and diethylcarbamazine alone or in combinations against Ascaris and Trichuris spp.

2003 • 154 citations

A Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Detection of the Parasite Wuchereria bancrofti in Human Blood Samples

1996 • 137 citations

Recombinant antigen-based antibody assays for the diagnosis and surveillance of lymphatic filariasis - a multicenter trial.

2004 • 134 citations

Basic lymphoedema management : treatment and prevention of problems associated with lymphatic filariasis

2002 • 121 citations

Prospects for Elimination of Bancroftian Filariasis by Mass Drug Treatment in Pondicherry, India: A Simulation Study

2003 • 115 citations

The use of spatial analysis in mapping the distribution of bancroftian filariasis in four West African countries

2002 • 112 citations

Bacteriologic Studies of Skin, Tissue Fluid, Lymph, and Lymph Nodes in Patients with Filarial Lymphedema

1997 • 111 citations

Lymphoscintigraphic Analysis Of Lymphatic Abnormalities In Symptomatic And Asymptomatic Human Filariasis

1994 • 110 citations

Renal Abnormalities in Microfilaremic Patients with Bancroftian Filariasis

1992 • 105 citations

Filariasis without Microfilaremia *

1970 • 104 citations

Linking disease control programmes in rural Africa: a pro-poor strategy to reach Abuja targets and millennium development goals

2004 • 102 citations

A Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Detection of Brugia Malayi in Blood

1994 • 102 citations

An analysis of the safety of the single dose, two drug regimens used in programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

2000 • 100 citations

FILARIASIS IN AMERICAN ARMED FORCES IN WORLD WAR II

1947 • 100 citations

Physical and psychosocial burden due to lymphatic filariasis as perceived by patients and medical experts

2005 • 98 citations

Ultrasonographic assessment of the adulticidal efficacy of repeat high‐dose ivermectin in bancroftian filariasis

1996 • 85 citations

Lymphoedema: Pathophysiology and management in resource-poor settings - relevance for lymphatic filariasis control programmes.

2003 • 73 citations

Controlling morbidity and interrupting transmission: twin pillars of lymphatic filariasis elimination

1999 • 70 citations

Development and standardization of a rapid, PCR-based method for the detection of Wuchereria bancrofti in mosquitoes, for xenomonitoring the human prevalence of bancroftian filariasis

2002 • 70 citations

A new tool to assess the adulticidal efficacy in vivo of antifilarial drugs for bancroftian filariasis

1995 • 68 citations

A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL COMPARING SINGLE- AND MULTI-DOSE COMBINATION THERAPY WITH DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE AND ALBENDAZOLE FOR TREATMENT OF BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS

2004 • 64 citations

The PacELF programme: will mass drug administration be enough?

2002 • 64 citations

Multicentre laboratory evaluation of Brugia Rapid dipstick test for detection of brugian filariasis

2003 • 59 citations

COMMUNITY-WIDE REDUCTION IN PREVALENCE AND INTENSITY OF INTESTINAL HELMINTHS AS A COLLATERAL BENEFIT OF LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS ELIMINATION PROGRAMS

2004 • 58 citations

Interdigital lesions and frequency of acute dermatolymphangioadenitis in lymphoedema in a filariasis-endemic area

2006 • 56 citations

A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Bancroftian Filariasis

1974 • 54 citations

Impact of insecticide-treated materials on filaria transmission by the various species of vector mosquito in Africa

2002 • 52 citations

Impact of untreated bednets on prevalence of Wuchereria bancrofti transmitted by Anopheles farauti in Papua New Guinea

2002 • 52 citations

Annual single-dose diethylcarbamazine plus ivermectin for control of bancroftian filariasis: comparative efficacy with and without vector control

2001 • 51 citations

Controlling onchocerciasis by community-directed, ivermectin-treatment programmes in Uganda: why do some communities succeed and others fail?

2000 • 51 citations

Use of floating layers of polystyrene beads to control populations of the filaria vector <I>Culex quinquefasciatus</I>

2002 • 47 citations

Does Whipworm Increase the Pathogenicity ofCampylobacter jejuni?A Clinical Correlate of an Experimental Observation

2004 • 44 citations

The human filariases: new understandings, new therapeutic strategies

1994 • 44 citations

Lymphatic filariasis in children: adenopathy and its evolution in two young girls.

2001 • 43 citations

Rapid assessment of the geographical distribution of lymphatic filariasis in Uganda, by screening of schoolchildren for circulating filarial antigens

2005 • 40 citations

RAPID ASSESSMENT FOR LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS IN CENTRAL NIGERIA: A COMPARISON OF THE IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC CARD TEST AND HYDROCELE RATES IN AN AREA OF HIGH ENDEMICITY

2003 • 38 citations

EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM TO ELIMINATE LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS IN VANUATU FOLLOWING TWO YEARS OF MASS DRUG ADMINISTRATION IMPLEMENTATION: RESULTS AND METHODOLOGIC APPROACH

2005 • 37 citations

Effectiveness of two annual, single‐dose mass drug administrations of diethylcarbamazine alone or in combination with albendazole on soil‐transmitted helminthiasis in filariasis elimination programme

2004 • 35 citations

Defining the cost of the Egyptian lymphatic filariasis elimination programme

2005 • 33 citations

Description, Mechanisms and Control of Reactions to Treatment in the Human Filariases

2007 • 32 citations

The role of the urologist in the treatment and elimination of lymphatic filariasis worldwide

2002 • 30 citations

Salt fortified with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) as an effective intervention for lymphatic filariasis, with lessons learned from salt iodization programmes

2000 • 28 citations

The Disappearance of Bancroftian Filariasis from Charleston, South Carolina

1987 • 25 citations

Vector control of filariasis in the Solomon Islands.

1975 • 22 citations

Elimination of bancroftian filariasis (Wuchereria bancrofti) in Santa Catarina state, Brazil

2000 • 17 citations

Vector control of filariasis in the Solomon Islands.

1975 • 14 citations

Evidence for the interruption of transmission of lymphatic filariasis among schoolchildren in Trinidad and Tobago

2004 • 13 citations

[11-years of chemoprophylaxis of non-periodic lymphatic filariasis with diethylcarbamazine in Tahiti].

1966 • 9 citations

1. INTRODUCTION

2004 • 8 citations

Parasitology in Brisbane

1986 • 5 citations