Filariasis at Port Mourant and its environs Corentyne Coast, British Guiana

ABSTRACT

Report on a Filariasis survey carried out at Port Mourant Sugar Estate on the Corentyne Coast of British Guiana; 3,539 persons were examined for Micro-filariaemia and 2,815 for both M.F. and clinical manifestations of filarial disease. The over-all M.F. rate 11.2. The local epidemiology, and the relations between parasitological and clinical manifestations of filariasis, and the results of treatment by Diethyl-carbammarize, are discussed