Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
In French Polynesia the cases of leprosy are individually severe but the endemy itself always stood in low limits. The intensive use of modern treatments since 1950 have been making the eredication reasonably possible in the future. However the brutal demographic increase, the deep upsetting of the society and the important migrations made propitious conditions in the urbanized area for the advent of a new centre of infection. The result seems to be an increase of leprosy in the territory.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales

hal-00715416
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00715416
PUBMED : 1037615

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
A 6 mg./kg. daily dose of levamisole was given during three days to ten carriers of microfilarias Wuchereria bancrofti in Tahiti. No action against adult worms was noticed. The immediate microfilaricid action was at least equivalent to the action of DEC. However the decrease of microfilaremia was not so long with levamisole than with DEC given to a lower dose. Lastly the amount of reactions after a treatment by levamisole is notable.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales

hal-00715413
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00715413
PUBMED : 1037387

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
In French Polynesia the cases of leprosy are individually severe, like in Asia, but the endemy always stood under a relatively low level. A strong campaign of chemiotherapy has been conducted for 25 years. Unfortunatly the actions of systematic detection of new cases are not sufficient and the sanitary education is almost non existent. The territory is actualy reached by deep demographic and social upsettings and chemiotherapy used alone is not enough efficient to obtain a definitive decrease of the endemy or even to avoid, for a long time, a new increase. However a significant decrease of the age of advent of the decrease must be credited to the action of chemiotherapy.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales

hal-00715415
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00715415
PUBMED : 1037614

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
The authors compare the serological results obtained before and after a single dose with diethylcarbamazine (6 mg./kg.) in a homogeneous and strongly infected with Wuchereria bancrofti var, pacifica population. They point out a statistically significant decrease of the hemagglutining antibody titres of filarian patients.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot Filiales

hal-00715414
https://hal.univ-antilles.fr/hal-00715414
PUBMED : 1037437