Bifenthrin is an effective pesticide to use against malaria and filaria vector mosquitoes. It is a proposed chemotherapeutic agent against canine filaria and trichomonas. Species within this superfamily are known as filarial worms or filariae (singular "filaria"). He conducted experiments on his gardener, Hin Lo, who was infected with filaria. The dramatic response to a commonly used drug for filaria (diethylcarbamazine) almost confirms the diagnosis. He sent them to Spencer Cobbold in London who named them "Filaria Bancrofti". He discovered the filaria larvae in Bahia. It was for this reason that Brug gave the original name "Microfilaria (Filaria) malayi". It was similar to another filarial roundworm "Wuchereria bancrofti" (then called "Filaria (Microfilaria) bancrofti"). Manson focused his time on searching for filaria in blood taken from his patients. Working with John Burton Cleland he studied worm nests in cattle due to "Filaria gibsoni". In 1955 the Indian government established the National Filaria Control Programme to reduce LF. Parasites of reedbucks include the filaria "Setaria graberi". This species was first described from Water buffalo in 1879, and named "Filaria poeli". He spent his early years researching filaria (a small worm that causes elephantiasis).