Abstract
WORKERS engaged in the search of a cure for filarioid infestains in man and animals will welcome the publication* of a symposium of fifteen papers by thirty-eight contributors who attended a conference on "The Chemotherapy of Filariasis" under the auspices of the Section of Biology of the New York Academy of Sciences on October 17 and 18, l947. The term ‘filariasis' in this publication signifies an infestation with a member of the nematode super-family Filarioidea. The use of this term recalls the days when the nematodes recovered from the lymphatic, circulatory or connective tissues or from the serous cavities of man and the lower vertebrates were all grouped in the genus Filaria, Mueller, 1787. Purists in medical and veterinary sciences, adopting the present-day classifications of taxonomy in biology, may maintain rightly that the term ‘filariasis' should no longer be employed to indicate all infestations due to members of the genera Onchocerca, Loa, Wuchereria, Acanthocheilonema, Mansonella, Dirofilaria, etc. The use of the terms ‘onchocerciasis', ‘loaiasis', etc., indicates specifically the genera involved.
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