NOUN
- a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels
How To Use filariasis In A Sentence
- These include lymphatic filariasis, the soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis and onchocerciasis.
- 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
- 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.
- More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- He's got a new disease called filariasis, a sort of low fever that he picked up in the Cubapines or Captain Jinks, Hero
- The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
- The companies that manufacture drugs for elimination of onchocerciasis, filariasis, and trachoma have agreed to donate them for as long as required.
