象皮病
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
由絲蟲引起的疾病
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.