Filarial Infections in a California Clinic
Authors: EDWARD K. MARKELL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1964)

Article1 December 1964Filarial Infections in a California ClinicEDWARD K. MARKELL, PH.D., M.D.EDWARD K. MARKELL, PH.D., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-61-6-1065 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptNosogeography, or the geography of disease, has been little stressed in the medical thinking of this country. As a result, most physicians are psychologically unprepared to cope with other than indigenous disease. That this should be so is not surprising, for the present-day diagnostic approach has been influenced by generations of teachers whose personal medical experience antedated the global shrinkage of the jet age. Maegraith (1) emphasized the importance of a detailed geographic history in the diagnosis of "exotic" diseases, pointing out that the patient cannot be expected to volunteer what may seem to him totally irrelevant information. Most and...References1. MAEGRAITH B: Unde venis? Lancet 1: 401, 1963. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. MOSTLEVINE HDI: Schistosomiasis in American tourists. JAMA 186: 453, 1963. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. TRENT SC: Re-evaluation of World War II veterans with filariasis acquired in the South Pacific. Amer. J. Trop. Med. 12: 877, 1963. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. ROSENBLATTBEAVERORIHEL PPCTC: A filarial infection apparently acquired in New York City. Amer. J. Trop. Med. 11: 641, 1962. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. STOLL NR: This wormy world. J. Parasit. 33: 1, 1947. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. ADOLPHKAGANMCQUAY PEIGRM: Diagnosis and treatment of Acanthocheilonema perstans filariasis. Amer. J. Trop. Med. 11: 76, 1962. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. MARKELL EK: Discussion of Dr. John F. Kessel's paper. (In Symposium of Helminthic Infections as the Cause of Disability and Disease.) Amer. J. Trop. Med. 6: 415, 1957. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. MARKELLVOGE EKM: Diagnostic Medical Parasitology, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1958, p. 245. Google Scholar9. KESSELMASSAL JFE: Control of Bancroftian filariasis in the Pacific. Bull WHO 27: 543, 1962. MedlineGoogle Scholar10. HAWKING F: A review of progress in the chemotherapy and control of filariasis since 1955. Ibid., p. 555. Google Scholar11. WOODRUFF AW: Discussion. (In Symposium on Loiasis.) Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 49: 153, 1955. Google Scholar12. THOMPSON JH: ACTH as an adjunct to the treatment of loaiasis. Amer. J. Trop. Med. 5: 1103, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar13. FELTSTALBOTT WREJ: A study of hostparasite relationship in Loa loa. A case report. Amer. J. Med. 22: 995, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. MAZZOTTI L: Posibilidad de utilizar como medio diagnóstico auxiliar en la oncocercosis, las reacciones alérgicas consecutivas a la administratión del "Hetrazán." Rev. Inst. Salub. Enferm. Trop. 9: 235, 1948. Google Scholar15. MARKELLTURNER EKJ: Cortisone and prednisone in the suppression of allergic reactions to diethylcarbamazine treatment of onchocerciasis. Amer. J. Trop. Med. 6: 546, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Oakland and Palo Alto, CaliforniaFrom the Department of Medicine, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland, and the Department of Preventive Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Edward K. Markell, M.D., Department of Medicine, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, 280 W. MacArthur Blvd., Oakland 11, Calif. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byHelminthic diseasesLoiasis in a Young Child in Oregon 1 December 1964Volume 61, Issue 6Page: 1065-1070KeywordsHospital medicinePreventive medicine Issue Published: 1 December 1964 PDF downloadLoading ...