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The national Filaria Control Unit at Bassein, in the Thana district of the Maharashtra State in India, had reported a filarial infection rate of 9.42 percent in 1967 at the village of Bhayandar, which is about 60 kilometers north of Bombay. This was the highest infection rate noted during the survey of that region. Therefore, it was suspected that other villages close to Bhayandar may also have high filarial infection rates. Hence, epidemiological studies were undertaken in the four villages of Murdhe, Rai, Morwa and Dongri, close to Bhayandar.
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Sant, M.V., Gatlewar, W.N., Menon, T.U.K. (1974). Epidemiological and Biochemical Studies in Filariasis in Four Villages near Bombay. In: Jucker, E. (eds) Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques. Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques, vol 18. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7087-0_20
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