title: Current knowledge on the epidemiology, diagnosis, immunology, and treatment of loiasis.
abstract: At the Centre International de Recherches Médicales (CIRMF) in Franceville, Gabon, a mini-symposium was held on the progress made in the research and control of loiasis from 20-22 February, 1995. The mini-symposium fulfilled its role as a platform for summarising and discussing recent advances in the research of this filarial infection and enabled the formulation of the presently most challenging issues: a specific and sensitive diagnostic test, the potential of ivermectin as a mass treatment and the factors and mechanisms of occult loiasis.
authors.affiliation: Centre International de Recherches Médicales, Franceville, Gabon.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wahl
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Georges
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D008118:Loiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy; D011323:Primates