Infections with nematodes of the superfamily FILARIOIDEA. The presence of living worms in the body is mainly asymptomatic but the death of adult worms leads to granulomatous inflammation and permanent fibrosis. Organisms of the genus Elaeophora infect wild elk and domestic sheep causing ischemic necrosis of the brain, blindness, and dermatosis of the face.
    

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'Banocide' : Bancroftian filariasis, Malayan filariasis, loiasis, tropical eosinophilia, onchocerciasis / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.

Annotated bibliography of filariasis, and elephantiasis / by M.O.T. Iyengar.

WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis : third report.

Observations on the periodicity of Microfilaria nocturna / by Warrington Yorke and B. Blacklock.

Observations on the natural history of human filariasis in Fiji : a report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on investigations conducted over the period 1954-1956 / by C.B. Symes.

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Annotated bibliography of filariasis, and elephantiasis / by M.O.T. Iyengar.

WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis : third report.

'Banocide' : Bancroftian filariasis, Malayan filariasis, loiasis, tropical eosinophilia, onchocerciasis / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Observations on the periodicity of Microfilaria nocturna / by Warrington Yorke and B. Blacklock.

Observations on the natural history of human filariasis in Fiji : a report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on investigations conducted over the period 1954-1956 / by C.B. Symes.