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Dracunculiasis is
caused by
infection with the
roundworm Dracunculus medinensis. D.
medinensis larvae reside within small aquatic crustaceans called copepods...
- Family:
Onchocercidae Genus: Loa Species: L. loa
Binomial name Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864)
Synonyms Dracunculus loa Cobbold, 1864
Filaria loa (Cobbold, 1864)...
- 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...
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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...
-
roundworm Wuchereria bancrofti (then
called Filaria (Microfilaria) bancrofti). But the new
species of
human filaria in
North Sumatra was both physiologically...
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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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Nematodes that
commonly parasitise humans include ascarids (Ascaris),
filarias, hookworms,
pinworms (Enterobius), and
whipworms (Trichuris trichiura)...
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Rhabditida Family:
Onchocercidae Genus:
Dirofilaria Species: D. immitis
Binomial name
Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy, 1856)
Synonyms Filaria immitis Leidy, 1856...
- soil-contaminated
wounds Loa loa filariasis,
Calabar swellings Loa loa
filaria connective tissue, lungs, eye
blood (Giemsa, haematoxylin,
eosin stain)...
