Lymphatic filariasis is a human disease caused by parasitic worms known as filarial worms. Usually acquired in childhood, it is a leading cause of permanent...

most common type is lymphatic filariasis caused by three species of Filaria that are spread by mosquitoes. Other types of filariasis are onchocerciasis...

Lymphatic filariasis in India refers to the presence of the disease lymphatic filariasis in India and the social response to the disease. In India, 99%...

eradication of lymphatic filariasis is the ongoing attempt to eradicate the Filarioidea worms which cause the disease lymphatic filariasis and also treat...

cause of lymphatic filariasis. It is one of the three parasitic worms, together with Brugia malayi and B. timori, that infect the lymphatic system to...

include onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, plague, Buruli ulcer, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease. Lymphatic filariasis, for example, causes severe...

(roundworm), one of the three causative agents of lymphatic filariasis in humans. Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a condition characterized...

Diethylcarbamazine is a medication used in the treatment of filariasis including lymphatic filariasis, tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, and loiasis. It may...

clinical manifestation of lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic infection caused by filarial roundworms that inhabit the lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, spleen...

(onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis. It works through many mechanisms to kill the targeted parasites...

International Task Force for Disease Eradication — measles, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and cysticercosis (pork tapeworm). The concept of...

chronic lymphangitis[citation needed] Elephantiasis tropica (known as lymphatic filariasis), caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria...

It is the second most common cause of tropical lymphedema after lymphatic filariasis, and it is characterized by prominent swelling of the lower extremities...

Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is a World Health Organization project to eradicate the Filarioidea worms which cause the disease lymphatic filariasis and...

Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis By 2020". NDTV. Rath, Nibedita; Dash, Sambit (22 August 2017). "India Is Set To Fail Its Target Of Eradicating Filariasis By 2020"...

integrated approach to reducing the incidence and impact of leprosy and lymphatic filariasis. In addition to treating the diseases, Lepra also aims to enable...

Lymphatic Filariasis" (PDF). World Health Organization. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "Lymphatic filariasis:...

disease Kikuchi disease Lipedema Lymphangitis Lymphatic filariasis Lymphocytic choriomeningitis Solitary lymphatic nodule Hippocrates, in the 5th century BC...

(arthropod-borne) nematode (roundworm) which causes the disease "Timor filariasis", or "Timorian filariasis". While this disease was first described in 1965, the identity...

include: Soil-transmitted helminthiases Roundworm infections such as lymphatic filariasis, dracunculiasis, and onchocerciasis Trematode infections, such as...

the intention of for example, the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, which aims to interrupt transmission in that way. The mature worms...

India and China, diethylcarbamazine has been added to salt to combat lymphatic filariasis. Basil Hetzel Enriched flour serves an analogous function to "enriched...

PMC 9393450. PMID 35895421. Hotez PJ (2013). "The filarial infections: lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and dracunculiasis (Guinea worm)". Forgotten People...

parasitic disease filariasis. Specifically, of the three species known, Brugia malayi and Brugia timori cause lymphatic filariasis in humans; and Brugia...

priority listing. A filariasis such as loiasis most often consists of asymptomatic microfilaremia. Some patients can develop lymphatic dysfunction causing...

also identifies co-endemic areas with lymphatic filariasis to properly treat Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.[citation needed] WHO priorities research...

Schistosomiasis - a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called Schistosomas Lymphatic filariasis caused by filarial worms Dracunculiasis caused by the roundworm Dracunculus...

disease, as well as controlling and treating onchocerciasis, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria through awareness campaigns. In 2002, Jimmy Carter received...

mosquito additionally transmits Wuchereria bancrofti which causes lymphatic filariasis, a symptom of which is elephantiasis. The Anopheles gambiae complex...

Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF). Around 120 million people globally are believed to be infected with lymphatic filariasis. In 2012, the company...