Nicholas Tendongfor

TL;DR: Doxycycline is well tolerated in patients co-infected with moderate intensities of L. loa parasitaemias and the viability of female adult worms was significantly reduced in doxycycline treated groups and the macrofilaricidal and sterilising activity was unaffected by the addition of ivermectin.

TL;DR: The therapeutic coverage and the compliance treatment rate achieved in this study are indicators that the strategy involving the mass administration of doxycycline can be used to control onchocerciasis in those areas of co-endemicity with loiasis where ivermectin may be contraindicated.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the elephantiasis seen in the North West province of Cameroon is of non-filarial origin.

TL;DR: Investigation of parasitological and entomological indices of onchocerciasis transmission in three drainage basins in the rain forest area of Cameroon shows that after over a decade of CDTI, the burden of on chocerriasis has reduced, however, transmission is still going on in this study site where loiasis and onchchocersasis are co-endemic and where ecological factors strongly favour the onchokerciatic transmission.

TL;DR: M Males were found more infected than females for the three species of filariae, and the prevalence and intensities of microfilaremia vary differently in males and females at different ages.