How To Use Filaria In A Sentence
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This scenario would have profound implications in filarial biology as more females survive to produce millions of microfilariae and the role of males is restricted to reproduction.
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The human body is the host, the filarial nematode worm the agent, and the mosquito that picks up microfilariae during feeding the transmitter of the disease.
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These include lymphatic filariasis, the soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis and onchocerciasis.
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The companies that manufacture drugs for elimination of onchocerciasis, filariasis, and trachoma have agreed to donate them for as long as required.
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Manson was moreover guided by his experience regarding another parasite of the blood, a little worm, filaria, the transference of which from one part of its life-cycle to another he had found effected by the mosquito, and more particularly by special species of the mosquito.
Physiology or Medicine 1902 - Presentation Speech
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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_Culex microannulatus_ regarded as the carrier of the filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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He's got a new disease called filariasis, a sort of low fever that he picked up in the Cubapines or
Captain Jinks, Hero
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They live for 4-6 years, producing millions of immature microfilariae (minute larvae) that circulate in the blood.
Chapter 2
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
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Over a week or so, these microfilariae develop into infective larvae and can be transmitted when the fly bites another person.
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Local, national and regional political will and leadership is also needed if we, together, are to meet the target of eliminating lymphatic filariasis, river blindness and trachoma, from the region by 2015.
Peter Hotez: Clinton-Sebelius-Obama Apologies for Guatemala Are Just the First Step
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In their research, the boffins are working with parasites called filarial nematodes, which can cause conditions such as elephantiasis.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Ivermectin remains as effective as ever in clearing microfilariae but is becoming less effective in tackling the adult worms, they fear.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Moreover, the great majority of all protozoa, filariae, bacteria, and viruses are not dangerous for human consumption, because they are not transmittable to humans, i.e., they are simply excreted when consumed.16 Their greatest drawback is that they do reduce the quality of the meat.
Modern Science in the Bible
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The genus Dirofilaria includes various species that are natural parasites of dogs, cats, foxes and wild mammals.
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ARS researchers are using new biological controls to retaliate against the mosquito, an insect that can transmit viruses, protozoan parasites, and filariae (small worms).
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The symposium featured 71 presentations covering soil-transmitted and water-borne helminth infections, as well as arthropod-borne diseases such as leishmaniasis, malaria and lymphatic filariasis.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
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Ivermectin has been used in humans to treat millions of cases of onchocerciasis, other filariases, and intestinal nematodal infections such as strongyloidiasis.
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Acute filarial fever, in fact, can often look like an attack of an other disease that is rampant in many of the same countries where filariasis is common: malaria.
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The filarial worms have essentially the same life cycle as O. volvulus, and the same susceptibility to ivermectin.
Parasite Rex
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They would learn that a significant number of other crippling and killing diseases, including African river blindness, schistosomiasis, trauchoma, lymphatic filariasis, hookworm, ascariasis, and trichuriasis, could be brought under control for well under $2 per American citizen per year, and perhaps just $1 per American citizen!
How Aid Can Work
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For example, filaria is widespread in the project area, including both river blindness and loa-loa.
Chapter 7
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A high rate of repopulation of skin with microfilariae will allow parasite transmission, possibly with ivermectin-resistant O. volvulus which could eventually lead to recrudescence of the disease.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The longitudinal type characterises such genera as _Vibrio_, _Filaria_, _Gordius_, and all the annulate animals.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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It was the younger Thomas Bancroft who proved in 1899 that filariae that actively developed in the mosquito were transferred to humans by the act of feeding on blood.
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Any of a genus (Simulium) of black flies, several species of which transmit the parasitic filarial worms that cause onchocerciasis.
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Infection with filarial nematodes is lifelong and individual adult worms can survive for 5 years or more within the parasitized host.
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An historical review of malaria, kala-azar and filariasis in Bangladesh in relation to the Flood Action Plan.
Chapter 13
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In lymphatic filariasis, infective larvae are inoculated by mosquitoes; adult worms are found in lymph nodes or adjacent lymphatics, and offspring circulate in the blood, often only at night.
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Transmission occurs when a mosquito bites an infected human, picking up the microfilariae, which develop into larvae.
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Transmit malaria, yellow fever, Rickettsia of disease, plague, filariasis, and so on, the destruction of grain, timber and food.
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Malaria and filariasis are spread by mosquitoes, sleeping sickness by tsetse flies, kala-azar by sand flies, river blindness by black flies.
Parasite Rex
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Manson commented, ‘It is marvelous how Nature has adapted the habits of the filariae to those of the mosquito.’
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D. filaria, the large lungworm of sheep and goats, may occasionally be present and be a cause of a clinical pneumonia.
Chapter 2
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Malaria, filariasis, and dengue fever are the three major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries.
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Manson's theory in regard to the disease being caused by filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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The eggs then mature into a threadlike state called microfilariae, before developing into larvae, which can then be picked up and handed on to other people when a black fly takes a blood meal.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It is clear that this anti-parasite treatment can result in improvement of patients 'elephantiasis and hydrocoele (especially in the early stages of disease), but the most significant treatment advance to alleviate the suffering of those with elephantiasis has come from recognizing that much of the progression in pathology results from bacterial and fungal "superinfection" of tissues with compromised lymphatic function caused by earlier filarial infection.
Chapter 6
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Manson correctly surmised that chyluria and elephantiasis were manifestations of lymphatic obstruction by adult filarial worms.
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Just as we are close to eradicating polio, can the same be said about eliminating lymphatic filariasis?
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They would learn that a significant number of other crippling and killing diseases, including African river blindness, schistosomiasis, trauchoma, lymphatic filariasis, hookworm, ascariasis, and trichuriasis, could be brought under control for well under $2 per American citizen per year, and perhaps just $1 per American citizen!
How Aid Can Work
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Here, then, was a possible explanation for the effectiveness of antibiotics against filarial nematodes.
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In bancroftian filariasis, detection of circulating antigen by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay or rapid immunochromatographic testing has replaced microscopy.
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… Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae.
Modern Science in the Bible
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In addition, USAID is supporting efforts to eliminate two other NTDs in the Western Hemisphere - lymphatic filariasis and river blindness.
Peter Hotez: Clinton-Sebelius-Obama Apologies for Guatemala Are Just the First Step
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The microfilariae are especially dangerous as they migrate to the surface of the cornea, causing eye infection and, eventually, blindness.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In four communities, they found that even though the ivermectin had wiped out 100 percent of microfilariae in 99 percent of the patients, the parasites swiftly bounced back.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The offspring, known as microfilariae, migrate under the skin and cause intense itching.
Medindia Health News
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Both conditions are known as filarial diseases in which the body is infected with parasitic worms.
State News Top Stories
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When a mosquito bites an infected animal, the heartworm microfilariae are ingested along with the blood.
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The asymptomatic form of infection is most often characterized by the presence in the blood of thousands or millions of larval parasites (microfilariae) and adult worms located in the lymphatic system.
Chapter 4
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These are the larval forms of the parasite and have been called by Le Dantec the micro-filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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Perhaps, at some stage long ago, the bacteria were transferred from insects to nematodes, since filarial nematodes reside in insects during some stages of their life cycles.
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With extensive trauma or in filariasis, the presence of triglycerides increases with the triglycerides forming fat droplets.
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Much of the interest centers on two prescient suggestions made by the two scientists in their 1977 paper on Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial worm that causes onchocerciasis.
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Lack of awareness regarding all vector-borne diseases like filariasis is the major bottleneck in the promotion of such schemes.
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The Government campaign to eradicate filaria through the mass drug administration programme is good and in the interest of community health.
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Method: 140 patients with chronic filariasis were investigated by the methods of questionnaire, conversation and observing.
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Hard to reach communities who are already being reached by these other programmes, such as those to control onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis, could at the same time be given bed nets.
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Anopheles mosquitoes type of mosquitoes that may transmit malaria and rural filariasis arbovirus an arthropod-borne virus, i.e. a virus that is transmitted by insects, ticks or mites bilharziasis see: schistosomiasis cost-effectiveness analysis
Chapter 4
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Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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At a time when diseases spread by mosquitoes such as dengue fever and filariasis are on the increase, the experts' warning is alarming.
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The horses scampered down the flat to search out alfilaria.
The California Birthday Book
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Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, leave victims deformed, hamper productivity and normal social interaction, Chan said.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood.
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… Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae.
Modern Science in the Bible
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Within three months, microfilariae populations had rebounded to between seven and 21 percent of their pre-treatment level, and within six months, this had reached 54 percent.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Ivermectin has been used in humans to treat millions of cases of onchocerciasis, other filariases, and intestinal nematodal infections such as strongyloidiasis.
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Anopheline vectors of malaria as a general rule prefer clean water, while the culicine vectors of filariasis breed in organically polluted water.
1. Target audience, objectives, scope and structure
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Lymphatic filariasis was classified into acute or chronic disease.
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More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
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The adult filariae lodge in the lymphatic system causing debilitating lymphoedema.
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Objective To investigate and supervise the prevalence of filariasis after its elimination in Shangdong province.
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Wolbachia are bacterial symbionts of the major human filarias, including Onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic nematode that causes onchocerciasis.
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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C. quinquefasciatus is the principal vector of human filariasis, and breeds in cesspits and drains.
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Each adult female worm, thin but more than 1/2 metre in length, produces millions of microfilariae (microscopic larvae) that migrate throughout the body and give rise to a variety of symptoms: serious visual impairment, including blindness; rashes, lesions, intense itching and depigmentation of the skin; lymphadenitis, which results in hanging groins and elephantiasis of the genitals; and general debilitation.
Chapter 2
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-- The two lung worms of sheep are the _Strongylus filaria_ and Strongylus_ rufescens_.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated.
Chapter 11
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The _S. filaria_ is thread-like and the _S. refuscens_ hair-like in appearance.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Best of 2007, Part Two of Four ~ Film « 1979 Semi-Finalist…
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Not all parasites pass through a transformation inside the vector and remain in the salivary glands: filarial parasites are attached to the so-called proboscis (the mouth-part penetrating the skin) and are therefore transmitted mechanically.
Chapter 6
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These trials do not cover the drug related to tropical disease such as kala-azar, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Filaria, Dengue, Chucken Gunea, which are the major problems of the third world countries.
Indian subjects in clinical trials are vulnerable lot
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During the Second World War, tens of thousands of Australian and American soldiers fighting in the Pacific Islands had terrible trouble with lymphatic filariasis, another parasitic infection, that causes elephantiasis.
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According to the textbook, still the presence of most parasites is easy to detect with the naked eye, even the microscopic ones, like protozoa and filariae, and also the bacteria and viruses, because they change the appearance of the meat.15 This can also be seen from the illustration at left.
Modern Science in the Bible
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In other communities, though, the microfilariae population was controlled as expected.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Anopheles mosquitoes type of mosquitoes that may transmit malaria and rural filariasis arbovirus an arthropod-borne virus, i.e. a virus that is transmitted by insects, ticks or mites bilharziasis see: schistosomiasis cost-effectiveness analysis
Chapter 4
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For example, water-seal slabs in latrines reduce the breeding sites for culicine mosquitos, vectors of filariasis; treatment of excrete prior to its disposal can kill the eggs and cysts of many human parasites (Ascaris, Entamoeba, and Schistosoma spp), thus preventing contamination of both ground and water.
Chapter 4
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In 2002, 32 countries used mass drug administration to stop transmission of lymphatic filariasis.
