-
Dracunculiasis is
caused by
infection with the
roundworm Dracunculus medinensis. D.
medinensis larvae reside within small aquatic crustaceans called copepods...
- were
examined in the same year in
England by
George Busk who
named them
Filaria sanguinis hominis. In 1876 and 1877,
Joseph Bancroft in Brisbane, Australia...
- Family:
Onchocercidae Genus: Loa Species: L. loa
Binomial name Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864)
Synonyms Dracunculus loa Cobbold, 1864
Filaria loa (Cobbold, 1864)...
-
within this
superfamily are
known as
filarial worms or
filariae (singular
filaria).
Infections with
parasitic filarial worms cause disease conditions generically...
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African eye worm, loaiasis, loaina, Loa loa filariasis,
filaria loa,
filaria lacrimalis,
filaria subconjunctivalis,
Calabar swellings,
fugitive swellings...
- The 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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Rhabditida Family:
Onchocercidae Genus:
Dirofilaria Species: D. immitis
Binomial name
Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy, 1856)
Synonyms Filaria immitis Leidy, 1856...
- from
Africa by a
German missionary doctor in 1890 and
named the
organism Filaria volvulus.
Rodolfo Robles and
Rafael Pacheco in
Guatemala first mentioned...
-
Filaria sanguinis hominis minor, due to
their relatively small size when
compared to
another type of
microfilarae found in the same
patient (
Filaria sanguinis...
- 2017.
Retrieved 17
March 2017. O’Neill, J. (1875). "On the
presence of a
filaria in "craw-craw."" (PDF). The Lancet. 105 (2686): 265–266. doi:10...
