"Filariasis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D005368
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.508.700.750.361
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| Concept/Terms |
Filariasis- Filariasis
- Filariases
- Infections, Filarioidea
- Filarioidea Infection
- Infection, Filarioidea
- Filarioidea Infections
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Filariasis" by people in Profiles.
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Sharma A, Sharma P, Vishwakarma AL, Srivastava M. Functional Impairment of Murine Dendritic Cell Subsets following Infection with Infective Larval Stage 3 of Brugia malayi. Infect Immun. 2017 Jan; 85(1).
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Rathaur S, Sharma S, Singh RN, Henkle K, Selkirk ME. Antibody responses of Wuchereria bancrofti patients to recombinant Brugia pahangi superoxide dismutase. Indian J Exp Biol. 2001 Jan; 39(1):35-40.
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Sharma S, Sharma M, Rathaur S. Bancroftian filariasis in the Varanasi region of north India: an epidemiological study. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 1999 Jun; 93(4):379-87.
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Sharma S, Rathaur S. Characterization of secretory acetylcholinesterase from Setaria cervi microfilariae: a potential antigen for diagnosis of human filariasis. Trop Med Int Health. 1999 May; 4(5):341-8.
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Jeffers GW, Klei TR, Enright FM, Henk WG. The granulomatous inflammatory response in jirds, Meriones unguiculatus, to Brugia pahangi: an ultrastructural and histochemical comparison of the reaction in the lymphatics and peritoneal cavity. J Parasitol. 1987 Dec; 73(6):1220-33.
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Jeffers GW, Klei TR, Enright FM. Activation of jird (Meriones unguiculatus) macrophages by the filarial parasite Brugia pahangi. Infect Immun. 1984 Jan; 43(1):43-8.