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Brugia  

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Note

  • infection: check text for probable lymphatic involvement & coord IM with ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL (IM); coord with specific helminth term (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc) if pertinent; /drug eff: consider FILARICIDES

Scope note

  • A filarial worm of Southeast Asia, producing filariasis and elephantiasis in various mammals including man. It was formerly included in the genus WUCHERERIA.

History note

  • 86(75); was see under FILARIOIDEA 1969-85

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002009

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