Even if around 180 million people suffer from lymphoedema worldwide (Casley-Smith et al, 1997), its impact as a public health problem is underestimated. The main reason for this being the lack of epidemiology. Both in developed and developing countries, the prevalence and incidence of lymphoedema is unknown. In developing countries, lymphatic filariasis (LF) is seen as the major cause of lympho...

We herein describe a case of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in a previously healthy 37-year-old Nepalese man. The patient presented with a history of milky urine with subsequent acute urinary retention lasting for a few days. The presence of microfilariae was confirmed on both peripheral blood and urine smears obtained at midnight. He was conservatively treated with diethylcarbamazine combined ...

Helminth-induced eosinophilia has been linked to tropical endomyocardial fibrosis. Filaria and schistosomiasis are most frequently found to induce chronic eosinophilia. Rarely, it may lead to endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) [1]. EMF is thought to be vanishing disease in India with occasional reported cases mainly from Kerala in India [2]. Our patient was a native resident of Uttarakhand in India ...

Turbid white urine 'albinuria' is defined as a urine discoloration described as milky or cloudy. One of the most frequent causes of turbid white urine is chyluria complicating filariasis (Table 1). The extant causes of albinuria are non parasitic and rare. Amongst their aetiologies stand excessive mineral sediment excretion such as calciuria and phosphaturia, massive pyuria and fungal infection...

Received: October 19, 2017 Revised: November 21, 2017 Accepted: December 21, 2017 Abstract: Background: Lymphatic filariasis is a tropical disease and currently more than 1.4 billion people in 73 countries are at risk but still it is neglected in higher researches. Lymphatic filariasis is wide spread throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Africa, the Western Pacific and some par...

Background: Good knowledge of what factors are associated with filariasis cases, can determine effective control and prevention. Because each region has different risk factors.The purpose this study was to cases in Indonesia.Methods: This used systematic review method using database search from Google Scholar, Sciencedirect, Researhgate, Scopus, PubMed Grey Literature. keyword “Factor risk” boo...

Culex quinquefasciatus is a vector of filariasis (elephantiasis) and Japanese encephalitis. Filariasis still an unresolved disease in Indonesia. The use temephos as chemical larvicide repeatedly causes environmental pollution difficult to decompose, so the World Health Organization recommends looking for alternative effects. Gotu kola leaf extract contains metabolic substances such steroids,sap...