Definition of Microfilaria. Meaning of Microfilaria. Synonyms of Microfilaria

- The microfilaria (plural microfilariae, sometimes abbreviated mf) is an early stage in the life cycle of certain parasitic nematodes in the family Onchocercidae...
- technique allows examination of larval motion, confirming the presence of microfilaria. It also helps in the distinction of D. immitis from Acanthocheilonema...
- humans. These are ingested by mosquitoes when they bite. The ingested microfilaria mature and eventually migrate to the insect proboscis from where they...
- microfilariae while feeding on the host's blood. Once inside the vector, the microfilaria sheds its sheaths and escapes through the walls of the midgut into the...
- ovoviviparous and can produce thousands of juveniles known as microfilariae. The microfilaria is a miniature adult, and retains the egg membrane as a sheath, and is...
- fly takes a blood meal on an infected human host, and ingests microfilaria. The microfilaria enter the gut and thoracic flight muscles of the black fly,...
- host the microfilaria can develop further till the vector conveys it to another definitive host. In the new definitive host the microfilaria complete...
- patients with a low microfilaria load (with densities less than 8000 mf/mL).[citation needed] In patients with high microfilaria load and/or the possibility...
- have over 30,000 microfilaria per milliliter of blood risk inflammation and capillary blockage due to the rapid death of the microfilaria following ivermectin...
- Microfilaria in blood smear...