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* Blindness (known as river blindness disease). | * Blindness (known as river blindness disease). | ||
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|Loiasis (Loa Loa) | |Loiasis (Loa Loa) | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Kalsang Dolma, M.B.B.S.[2]
Overview
Filariasis can have varied clinical presentations depending on their cause. Symptoms include fever, headache, pruritus, scrotal and leg swelling and pulmonary symptoms
History and Symptoms
- History of travelling should be asked to the patients to know if they were in endemic areas of the diseases before or not.
- Filariasis symptoms depends on the type of the roundworm causing the disease. In this table a collection of the symptoms occur by each worm.[1][2][3]
| Diseases | Most common symptoms | Less common symptoms |
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| Lymphatic filariasis |
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| Onchocerciasis (Onchocerca volvulus) |
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| Loiasis (Loa Loa) |
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| Mansonella perstans, Mansonella streptocerca infections and Mansonella ozzardi |
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If symptomatic, it includes the following:
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References
- ↑ CDC https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/lymphaticfilariasis/disease.html Accessed on June 29, 2017
- ↑ Chandy A, Thakur AS, Singh MP, Manigauha A (2011). "A review of neglected tropical diseases: filariasis". Asian Pac J Trop Med. 4 (7): 581–6. doi:10.1016/S1995-7645(11)60150-8. PMID 21803313.
- ↑ Pani SP, Srividya A (1995). "Clinical manifestations of bancroftian filariasis with special reference to lymphoedema grading". Indian J Med Res. 102: 114–8. PMID 8543349.