filaria

IPA: fiɫˈɑriʌ

Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.

Examples of "filaria" in Sentences

_Culex microannulatus_ regarded as the carrier of the filaria.
Manson's theory in regard to the disease being caused by filaria.
The _S. filaria_ is thread-like and the _S. refuscens_ hair-like in appearance.
-- The two lung worms of sheep are the _Strongylus filaria_ and Strongylus_ rufescens_.
These are the larval forms of the parasite and have been called by Le Dantec the micro-filaria.
For example, filaria is widespread in the project area, including both river blindness and loa-loa.
D. filaria, the large lungworm of sheep and goats, may occasionally be present and be a cause of a clinical pneumonia.
Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated.
Manson was moreover guided by his experience regarding another parasite of the blood, a little worm, filaria, the transference of which from one part of its life-cycle to another he had found effected by the mosquito, and more particularly by special species of the mosquito.
Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject.