| Here, then, was a possible explanation for the effectiveness of antibiotics against filarial nematodes. |
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| At present, more than 200 million people are infected with filarial parasites. |
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| Diethylcarbamazine and ivermectin, used for treating filarial worm infections, are absorbed from the intestinal tract. |
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| Perhaps, at some stage long ago, the bacteria were transferred from insects to nematodes, since filarial nematodes reside in insects during some stages of their life cycles. |
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| The human body is the host, the filarial nematode worm the agent, and the mosquito that picks up microfilariae during feeding the transmitter of the disease. |
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| At that time, several groups of parasitologists interested in the microanatomy of filarial parasites examined the organisms with electron microscopes. |
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| In mammals filarial worms cause a group of infectious disorders including heartworm, elephantiasis, and river blindness. |
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| Much of the interest centers on two prescient suggestions made by the two scientists in their 1977 paper on Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial worm that causes onchocerciasis. |
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| The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan. |
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| The filarial nematode Wucheria bancrofti is transmitted to humans by arthropods and is commonly found in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, and Brazil. |
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| Endemic in parts of Latin American and sub-Saharan Africa, it is a filarial disease transmitted by black flies that causes blindness and skin problems. |
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| The filarial life cycle consists of several developmental or larval stages in a mammal host and an intermediate stage in a mosquito which serves as host and vector. |
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| Recent research on the bacterial species Wolbachia which live as essential endosymbionts in filarial worms may lead to novel schemes for therapy and possibly also control of both lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis. |
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| Diethylcarbamazine, synthetic anthelmintic drug effective against certain parasitic filarial worms, which are endemic throughout most of the subtropical and tropical regions of the world. |
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| The use of acetoorcein-stained squash preparations for enumeration of nuclei in microfilariae of various filarial parasites. |
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| Human onchocerciasis is a disease caused by a filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus. |
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| They conducted a pilot study in Cameroon, where health officials have been battling the filarial, or parasitic worm, diseases onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. |
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