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Preferred term

Filariasis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Filarioidea Infection
  • Filarioidea Infections
  • Infection, Filarioidea
  • Infections, Filarioidea

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • ELAEOPHORIASIS was heading 1975-92 (see under FILARIASIS 1975-90)

In other languages

  • filariaasi

    Finnish

  • filaria
  • filariainfektion
  • filariasis
  • filariasis non specificata
  • filarioosi
  • määrittämätön filariaasi
  • ospecificerad filariainfektion
  • rihmamatotauti
  • Filariasis

    Swedish

  • Filarios

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005368

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