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Frequency distributions of microfilarial counts partitioned by age are successfully described by zero-truncated negative binomial distributions, fitted by maximum likelihood. This analysis provides estimates of the proportion of mf-positive individuals who are identified as negative due to sampling errors, allowing the construction of corrected mf age\u2013prevalence curves, which indicate that the observed prevalence may under-estimate the true figures by between 18 and 47%. There is no evidence from these results for a decrease in the degree of over-dispersion of parasite frequency distributions with host age, such as might be produced by the acquired immunity to infection. This departure from the pattern in bancroftian filariasis (where there is evidence of such decreases in over-dispersion; Das <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic> 1990) is discussed in terms of the long history of filariasis control (and consequently low infection prevalence) in Shertallai.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0031182000062508","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,6,5]],"date-time":"2009-06-05T14:33:51Z","timestamp":1244212431000},"page":"207-212","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Frequency distribution of <i>Brugia malayi<\/i> microfilariae in human populations"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"102","author":[{"given":"A.","family":"Srividya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"K.","family":"Krishnamoorthy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Sabesan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"K. 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