P. K. Das

TL;DR: The study suggests that six to seven DEC treatments per individual suppresses microfilaraemia, except in some people with heavy infection, and repeated MDA has very good potential to prevent infection in children.

TL;DR: The age specific parasite prevalence indicated a high degree of transmission and high level of acquired immunity in top- and foot-hill villages of both zones as compared to plain and riverine villages and an uniform residual insecticidal spray schedule as followed is not necessary.

TL;DR: The results suggest that hydrocele development follows early after exposure, but prolonged exposure could result either in development of lymphedema or immune tolerance resulting in microfilaremia, and could also suggest that the pathomechanisms inDevelopment of hydrocele and lyMPhedema could follow different pathways.

TL;DR: It was found that both the prevalence of infection and the degree of parasite aggregation in the vector population falls significantly with parasite stage, implying the operation of density dependence, perhaps via parasite-induced vector mortality.

TL;DR: Lot quality assurance sampling with two‐stage sampling plan was applied for rapid monitoring of coverage after every round of mass drug administration (MDA) and cost‐effectiveness analysis showed that both options of LQAS are more cost‐effective than SRSH to detect a village with a given level of coverage.