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SANFORD R. GIFFORD, M.D.; MICHAEL KONNÉ, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1943;29(4):578-582.

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From 1937 to 1940, one of us ( M. K.) resided in Equatorial Africa as parasitologist and pathologist for the Belgian department of public health. The region was heavily infested with Filaria loa, 25 to 50 per cent of the native population showing at some time signs of infection.

In 1936 M. K. had shown an eosinophil count of 12 to 16 per cent. but examinaof the blood for microfilarias at that time gave negative results. In 1938 the first clinical signs of infection appeared, moderate swellings of the right arm which would last for six to twelve hours and disappear. In April 1940, when he was visiting Chicago on leave, pain about the left eye was felt and the parasite to be described could be seen moving beneath the lower part of the bulbar conjunctiva of this eye. M. K. consulted Dr. N. K. Lazar and was seen by one . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Medical School.

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