%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture non répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Noireau, François
%A Apembet, J.D.
%A Nzoulani, A.
%A Carme, B.
%T Clinical manifestations of loiasis in an endemic area in the Congo
%D 1990
%L fdi:31731
%G ENG
%J Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
%@ 0177-2392
%K FILARIOSE ; LOASE ; EPIDEMIOLOGIE ; ENQUETE ; DIAGNOSTIC ; CLINIQUE ; SEROLOGIE
%K OEDEME DE CALABAR ; MIGRATION SOUS CONJONCTIVALE OCULAIRE ; MIGRATION SOUS CUTANEE ; PRURIT ; MICROFILAREMIE
%K CONGO
%K LEKOUMOU REGION
%N 1
%P 37-39
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:31731
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_5/b_fdi_30-30/31731.pdf
%V 41
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X The functional symptomatology of loiasis was studied in 101 Congolese subjects living in a village in a highly endemic area. 27.7 % of them were carriers of #Loa loa$ microfilariae. 5.9 % were infected with #Mansonella perstans$. No subjects were found to have dermal microfilariae. In anamnesis, 51.5 % of them reported episodes of Calabar swellings, 69.3 % history of eyeworm and 10.9 % episodes of subcutaneous migration of worms during the last 12 months. Pruritus and secondary dermal lesions were frequently demonstrated in 64.4 % and 56.4 % of the individuals respectively. Asymptomatic amicrofilaraemic subjects only accounted for 11.9 % of the adult population. The study of the life-time risk of eyeworm, also conducted in the Pygmy and Bantu populations of another village, was shown to be useful in epidemiological evaluations. (Résumé d'auteur)
%$ 052MALTRA05