title: Clinical manifestations of Bancroftian filariasis in a suburb of Calcutta, India.
abstract: Interviews and physical examinations for filarial disease were conducted in Howrah near Calcutta, West Bengal, India, in a study area where long term quantitative entomological studies have disclosed high intensity, year round exposure to Wuchereria bancrofti. Little elephantiasis or other serious filariasis-related disease was noted, but half the males over 20 years of age had genital lesions of various types. Ninety-two percent of households had at least one resident with microfilaremia or presumptive clinical evidence of filarial disease.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005368:Filariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014958:Wuchereria bancrofti