Manson's theory in regard to the disease being caused by filaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

These are the larval forms of the parasite and have been called by Le Dantec the micro-filaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

The true pathology of the elephantoid diseases may thus be briefly summarized: A parent filaria in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

For example, filaria is widespread in the project area, including both river blindness and loa-loa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The diameter of an embryo filaria is about the same as that of a red blood disk, one three-thousandth of an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

D. filaria, the large lungworm of sheep and goats, may occasionally be present and be a cause of a clinical pneumonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

Our readers are probably aware that the parent filaria and the filaria sanguinis hominis may exist in the human body without entailing any apparent disturbance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

The rapid strides which our knowledge has made during the past few years in the subject of the filaria parasite have been mainly owing to the diligent researches of Dr. Patrick Manson, who continues to work at the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

Manson was moreover guided by his experience regarding another parasite of the blood, a little worm, filaria, the transference of which from one part of its life-cycle to another he had found effected by the mosquito, and more particularly by special species of the mosquito.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology or Medicine 1902 - Presentation Speech] Reference

If we imagine the parent filaria located in a distal lymphatic vessel to abort and give birth to ova instead of embryos, it may be understood that the ova might be unable to pass such narrow passages as the embryo could, and this is really the hypothesis which Manson has put forward on the strength of observations made on two cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

DOH declares Southern Leyte as first filaria-free province.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This causes filaria of a different kind for which no medicine exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference

The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday officially declared Southern Leyte as the first filaria-free province in the Philippines.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

COMBATING A DISEASE: Medicines being administered at the Ernakulam General Hospital as part of the anti-filaria campaign on Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

The mosquito, at least potentially, can give you malaria, filaria, encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya … it can be that dangerous after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

In February, 1896, Henry of Philadelphia showed microscopic slides containing blood which was infested with numbers of living and active filaria embryos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Most public health programmes of the Government of India are directed towards communicable diseases such as malaria, filaria, polio, tuberculosis and leprosy etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference

Elephantiasis affects mainly the lower extremities, whereas ears, mucus membranes, and amputation stumps are rarely affected; however, it depends on the species of filaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting Reality] Reference

They are all men, and usually have some type of tropical disease, like malaria, typhoid, or filaria (a disease where the nematodes are in subcutaneous tissue, and will crawl out in contact with sunlight - that was some sight to see!!!).    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Although elephantiasis is met with in all climates, it is more common in the tropics, and its occurrence has been repeatedly demonstrated in these localities to be dependent on the presence in the lymphatics of the filaria sanguinis hominis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The declaration of Southern Leyte as a filaria-free province is in accordance with the elimination criteria, namely, that sentinel surveillance must show less than 1\% prevalence of microfilaremia in identified and selected areas, no true positives in the 2-4 years old children tested, and that no positives among the 3,000 new school entrants.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

There was evidently a good stiff epidemic of the yaws about; lots of cases of dum with the various symptoms; ulcers of course galore; a man with a bit of a broken spear head in an abscess in the thigh; one which I believe a professional enthusiast would call a “lovely case” of filaria, the entire white of one eye being full of the active little worms and a ridge of surplus population migrating across the bridge of the nose into the other eye, under the skin, looking like the bridge of a pair of spectacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

There was evidently a good stiff epidemic of the yaws about; lots of cases of dum with the various symptoms; ulcers of course galore; a man with a bit of a broken spear head in an abscess in the thigh; one which I believe a professional enthusiast would call a "lovely case" of filaria, the entire white of one eye being full of the active little worms and a ridge of surplus population migrating across the bridge of the nose into the other eye, under the skin, looking like the bridge of a pair of spectacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

Strongylus filaria Bronchi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

A parasite known as the filaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference

"Even healthy persons may carry germs of filaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

In ricefields, mosquito larval, maggots, snails, and leeches, which are the intermediate host of malaria, encephalitis, dysentery, blood fluke, and filaria, reproduce rapidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference