When a mosquito bites a person with lymphatic filariasis, microscopic filarial worms—microfilariae—circulating in the person’s blood enter and infect the mosquito. The microfilariae mature ...

Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic disease that's caused by "microscopic, thread-like worms," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The disease spreads from one ...

Lymphatic filariasis is a round worm infection related to the dog heart worm where adult male and female worms localize in the human body's lymphatic system. The female worms release microscopic ...

Developed by a team at the University of California at Berkeley, CellScope is a smartphone microscope that uses ... onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. If widely adopted, it could vastly ...

The disease, called lymphatic filariasis, can lead to severe swelling ... The researchers documented the discovery of the microscopic worms in a report published in The New England Journal of ...

How do you contract lymphatic filariasis? The larvae of these microscopic worms are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito. A number of different mosquito species can carry the ...

Disgusting footage shows the moment an ultra scan discovered microscopic worms squirming ... The unnamed patient was diagnosed with lymphatic filariasis, and prescribed a three-week course ...

The World Health Organization has targeted lymphatic filariasis for global elimination by 2020 with a strategy of mass drug administration. This trial tested whether a single dose of a three-drug ...

Though there are drugs available to treat both river blindness and lymphatic filariasis ... but a newly developed mobile phone microscope needing only a drop of blood to automatically detect ...

People with lymphatic filariasis view the illness through their cultural traditions. Often they blame outside invisible forces such as witchcraft, sorcery or ancestral curses when they contract ...

Eight of the 18 filariasis endemic districts in the state ... 6 years at nighttime and looks for the parasite through the microscope. If less than 1% of the samples report the presence of the ...