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Also known as Elephantiasis tropica, Elephantiasis, lymphatic filariasis, Bancroftian elephantiasis (disorder), Bancroftian filarial chyluria, Elephantiasis of eyelid (disorder), Lymphatic filariasis (disorder), elephantiasis of eyelid, Lymphatic filariasis
human disease caused by parasitic worms
Key facts
- Other names
- Elephantiasis tropica, elephantiasis arabum
- Specialty
- Infectious diseases
- Symptoms
- None, severe swelling of the arms, legs, breasts, or genitals
- Causes
- Filarial worms spread by mosquitos
- Diagnostic method
- Microscopic examination of blood
- Prevention
- Bed nets , mass deworming
- Medication
- Albendazole with ivermectin or diethylcarbamazine
- Frequency
- 40 million (2022)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
3,310 papers- Bilateral vulval filarial elephantiasis.BMJ case reports · 2018
- Elephantiasis.