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M Gentilini

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[Filarian elephantiasis in French Polynesia (Wuchereria bancrofti var. pacifica). II. Biological aspects].

Realized in French Polynesia among 274 patients with elephantiasis, this survey studied the microfilaremia, the eosinophily, the immunoglobulin titers and the antifilarian antibodies (done by passive hemagglutination) for Wuchereria bancrofti var. pacifica. Patients with elephantiasis seldom have circulating microfilariae in their blood. Hypereosinophily is frequent but rarely high. It is similar to the one patients with microfilaremia. There is a trend towards neutropenia during lymphangitic crisis that occur on an elephantiasis limb. The IgE titer is clearly increased, the IgG one is lesser elevated. The mean values are identical to those encoutered among microfilariae asymptomatic cariers. On the other hand the serodiagnosis is more frequently positive among elephantiasic patients.

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[Health consequences of the economic development of tropical countries].

If the usefulness of industrial development of the Third World is not really discussed, nevertheless it appears more and more necessary to evaluate carefully its advantages and disadvantages on the health status and the well being of the population concerned. Indeed, the evil consequences are well known: new outbreak of bilharziosis, malaria, onchocerciasis, but also arbovirosis, tuberculosis and S.T.D. On the other hand, we must consider the positive aspects of economic development: improvement of hygiene, constructions of health centers, increased food production. In order to minimize the drawbacks, some measures have to be taken, f.i.: to set up the sanitary files of the population to be displaced, the organization of the redwelling zones. For all these reasons, the cost evaluation must take into account the sanitary sector, keeping in mind the difficulty to appraise the consequential effects on climate and fauna.

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[The Institute of Health and Development: Why? For whom?].

Is it valuable to perpetuate the tropical medicine Institutes? The answer is certainly yes, provided they are able to open their curricula, in addition to the classical medical courses, to the cultural and socio-economical dimensions of development, and to drive in this direction their teachings. Their research programs have to reflect such a new special function, and to trend to a partnership with local teams, even if the lack of common background made, at the beginning, scientific dialogue technically difficult. Health and development Institute was set up in 1979 at Paris VI university, and was the result of a long and deep reflexion on the links between both concepts: "health", and "development". The Institute aims at to bring in its contribution to such a new dimension.

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