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...
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most common type is lymphatic filariasis caused by three species of Filaria that are spread by mosquitoes. Other types of filariasis are onchocerciasis...
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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%...
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eradication of lymphatic filariasis is the ongoing attempt to eradicate the Filarioidea worms which cause the disease lymphatic filariasis and also treat...
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Wuchereria bancrofti (category Lymphatic filariasis)
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...
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include onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, plague, Buruli ulcer, leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease. Lymphatic filariasis, for example, causes severe...
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Diethylcarbamazine (category Lymphatic filariasis)
Diethylcarbamazine is a medication used in the treatment of filariasis including lymphatic filariasis, tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, and loiasis. It may...
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Brugia malayi (category Lymphatic filariasis)
(roundworm), one of the three causative agents of lymphatic filariasis in humans. Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a condition characterized...
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(onchocerciasis), strongyloidiasis, trichuriasis, ascariasis and lymphatic filariasis. It works through many mechanisms to kill the targeted parasites...
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Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) is a World Health Organization project to eradicate the Filarioidea worms which cause the disease lymphatic filariasis and...
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Elephantiasis (redirect from Bancroftian filariasis)
chronic lymphangitis[citation needed] Elephantiasis tropica (known as lymphatic filariasis), caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria...
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International Task Force for Disease Eradication — measles, mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and cysticercosis (pork tapeworm). The concept of...
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Lymphedema (redirect from Lymphatic drainage massage)
Lymphatic Filariasis" (PDF). World Health Organization. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "Lymphatic filariasis:...
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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"...
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clinical manifestation of lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic infection caused by filarial roundworms that inhabit the lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, spleen...
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(arthropod-borne) nematode (roundworm) which causes the disease "Timor filariasis", or "Timorian filariasis". While this disease was first described in 1965, the identity...
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It is the second most common cause of tropical lymphedema after lymphatic filariasis, and it is characterized by prominent swelling of the lower extremities...
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parasitic disease, such as lymphatic filariasis. Lymphangiomatosis is a disease involving multiple cysts or lesions formed from lymphatic vessels.[relevant to...
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include: Soil-transmitted helminthiases Roundworm infections such as lymphatic filariasis, dracunculiasis, and onchocerciasis Trematode infections, such as...
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the intention of for example, the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, which aims to interrupt transmission in that way. The mature worms...
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disease, as well as controlling and treating onchocerciasis, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria through awareness campaigns. In 2002, Jimmy Carter received...
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India and China, diethylcarbamazine has been added to salt to combat lymphatic filariasis. Basil Hetzel Enriched flour serves an analogous function to "enriched...
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Lepra (charity) (section Lymphatic filariasis)
integrated approach to reducing the incidence and impact of leprosy and lymphatic filariasis. In addition to treating the diseases, Lepra also aims to enable...
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priority listing. A filariasis such as loiasis most often consists of asymptomatic microfilaremia. Some patients can develop lymphatic dysfunction causing...
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parasitic disease filariasis. Specifically, of the three species known, Brugia malayi and Brugia timori cause lymphatic filariasis in humans; and Brugia...
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includes some of the most devastating human parasitic diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, loiasis, and other filariases. The taxonomy of nematodes...
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Schistosomiasis – a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomas Lymphatic filariasis caused by filarial worms Dracunculiasis caused by the roundworm Dracunculus...
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Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF). Around 120 million people globally are believed to be infected with lymphatic filariasis. In 2012, the company...
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also identifies co-endemic areas with lymphatic filariasis to properly treat Onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis.[citation needed] WHO priorities research...
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PMC 9393450. PMID 35895421. Hotez PJ (2013). "The filarial infections: lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and dracunculiasis (Guinea worm)". Forgotten People...
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