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  • Title: [Lymphatic filariasis in Vanuatu].
    Author: Bourée P, Sauvagnac B, Montaville B.
    Journal: Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales; 1987; 80(4):634-45. PubMed ID: 2894256.
    Abstract:
    Lymphatic filariasis, in the Archipelago of Vanuatu, is due to Wuchereria bancrofti. The vector is Anopheles farauti, endophilic mosquito, which transmits also malaria. The level of endemicity was very high in the beginning of this century (microfilariae in blood: 60.9%, elephantiasis: 21%), and has dramatically decline now by detection and treatment of sick people (70 cases in 1986), mass chimioprophylaxis and protection against the vectors. But these actions must be continued to obtain the eradication of filariasis in the Vanuatu.
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