The present study was conducted from January 2013 and February, 2013 to find out microfilaria as well as Trypanosomiasis prevalence in cattle in Tangier in Morocco in relation to livestock health as per PCV counts. The findings demonstrate that Trypanosoma parasites were missing, conversely, microfilaria parasites were present. The prevalence level of microfilaria in the cattle was 6.5% (p<0.05...

Filariasis is a disabling parasitic disease and it constitutes as a major health problem in most of the tropical and sub-tropical countries. One hundred and twenty million people in at least 80 tropical and sub-tropical countries are infected with lymphatic filarial parasite, with one billion people being at risk of the disease. The laboratory diagnosis of filariasis is conventionally made by d...

Identification of microfilaria seen in blood films may be the only method available to make a diagnosis some filarial infections. The low incidence these infections Australia and lack exposure features identify is becoming more challenging for microscopists. Images taken from case studies collected than 50 years have been compiled show differences between morphology different species blood.

BACKGROUND The filarial parasites Loa loa and Mansonnella perstans are endemic in the central and western African forest block. Loa loa is pathogenic and represents a major obstacle to the control of co-endemic filariae because its treatment can cause fatal complications such as encephalitis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS 4392 individuals aged over 15 years were studied both by direct examin...

Filariasis displays a wide range of clinical and pathological manifestations, represented by asymptomatic carriers of microfilaria, symptomatic cases of filariasis with or without circulatory microfilaria and extreme cases of elephantiasis. The immunological status of the host is expected to play an important role in the genesis of the different manifestations. Diagnosis of filariasis is still ...

Lymphatic filariasis (LF), a nematode disease transmitted by arthropod vectors, is repeatedly reported in immigrant population. This disease is not endemic in Iran; however, different species of mosquitoes, capable of transmission of parasite microfilaria, are distributed in the country. Hereby, incidental detection of an imported case of LF due to Wuchereria bancrofti in an Indian worker in Ir...

There are few reports of "microfilaria in the urine." We report an elderly woman with gross hematuria who was being investigated for urinary tract tuberculosis. Three consecutive urine samples showed microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti. However, she did not have chyluria. Treatment with diethylcarbamazine cleared up the hematuria within 3 days. Chyluria, hematuria, and hematochyluria are probl...

To characterize immune responses associated with the putatively immune state in bancroftian filariasis (that is, both microfilaria and antigen free), humoral and cellular responses were compared among antigen- and microfilaria-negative, antigen-positive and microfilaria-negative, and microfilaria-positive individuals. Antifilarial isotype levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa...