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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 29(4), 1980, pp. 553-562
Copyright © 1980 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Brugia malayi: Relationship between Anti-Sheath Antibodies and Amicrofilaremia in Natives Living in an Endemic Area of South Kalimantan, Borneo*

P. B. McGreevy{dagger}, S. Ratiwayanto, Sekar Tuti, M. M. McGreevy{dagger} AND D. T. Dennis
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Jakarta Detachment, and National Institute of Health, Research and Development, Percetakan Negara 1, Jakarta, Indonesia

A seroepidemiological approach was taken to elucidate the relationship between anti-microfilarial antibodies and amicrofilaremia in humans living under natural conditions of exposure to Brugia malayi. Entomological observations indicated that all of the people in the study population in South Kalimantan, Borneo, were exposed repeatedly to filarial infection. A third of the population had antibodies to the sheath of microfilariae. The prevalence and titer of anti-sheath IgM was higher than anti-sheath IgG or IgA. There was a statistically significant correlation between anti-sheath antibody and amicrofilaremia and these antibodies may play a role in regulating peripheral microfilaremia.

Accepted for publication January 26, 1980.


* This study was supported through funds provided by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, for work unit no. ZF51.524.009-0085.

The opinions and assertions contained herein are not to be construed as official or as representing the views of the Indonesian Ministry of Health or the U.S. Navy.

Address reprint requests to: Publications Office, NAMRU-2, Box 2, APO San Francisco, California 96528.


{dagger} Present address: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. 20306.




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