 Elephantiasis, Filarial
"Elephantiasis, Filarial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Parasitic infestation of the human lymphatic system by WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI or BRUGIA MALAYI. It is also called lymphatic filariasis.
| Descriptor ID |
D004605
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.508.700.750.361.350 C15.604.496.490
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| Concept/Terms |
Elephantiasis, Filarial- Elephantiasis, Filarial
- Elephantiases, Filarial
- Filarial Elephantiases
- Lymphatic Filariasis
- Filarial Elephantiasis
- Filariasis, Lymphatic
- Filariases, Lymphatic
- Lymphatic Filariases
- Bancroftian Elephantiasis
- Bancroftian Elephantiases
- Elephantiases, Bancroftian
- Elephantiasis, Bancroftian
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Elephantiasis, Filarial" by people in Profiles.
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Poole CB, Li Z, Alhassan A, Guelig D, Diesburg S, Tanner NA, Zhang Y, Evans TC, LaBarre P, Wanji S, Burton RA, Carlow CK. Colorimetric tests for diagnosis of filarial infection and vector surveillance using non-instrumented nucleic acid loop-mediated isothermal amplification (NINA-LAMP). PLoS One. 2017; 12(2):e0169011.
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Sharma OP, Vadlamudi Y, Kota AG, Sinha VK, Kumar MS. Drug targets for lymphatic filariasis: a bioinformatics approach. J Vector Borne Dis. 2013 Sep; 50(3):155-62.
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