How To Use Filariasis In A Sentence
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These include lymphatic filariasis, the soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis and onchocerciasis.
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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!
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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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More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
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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.
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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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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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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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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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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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Malaria, filariasis, and dengue fever are the three major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries.
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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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In bancroftian filariasis, detection of circulating antigen by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay or rapid immunochromatographic testing has replaced microscopy.
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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!
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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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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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Transmit malaria, yellow fever, Rickettsia of disease, plague, filariasis, and so on, the destruction of grain, timber and food.
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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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An historical review of malaria, kala-azar and filariasis in Bangladesh in relation to the Flood Action Plan.
Chapter 13
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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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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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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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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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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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Method: 140 patients with chronic filariasis were investigated by the methods of questionnaire, conversation and observing.
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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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With extensive trauma or in filariasis, the presence of triglycerides increases with the triglycerides forming fat droplets.
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In 2002, 32 countries used mass drug administration to stop transmission of lymphatic filariasis.
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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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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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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C. quinquefasciatus is the principal vector of human filariasis, and breeds in cesspits and drains.
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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Objective To investigate and supervise the prevalence of filariasis after its elimination in Shangdong province.
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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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Lymphatic filariasis was classified into acute or chronic disease.
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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
