Filariasis: Diagnosis, treatment and prevention

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 106-109

  Palumbo, Emilio ^a  

^a Hospital of Sondrio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brigia malayi; Diagnosis; Lymphatic filariasis; Prevention; Treatment; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; COUMARIN; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; FLAVONOID; IVERMECTIN; PENICILLIN G; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT;

ASIA; BRIGIA MALAYI; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISABILITY; DNA PROBE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHIC TEST; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; LOA LOA; LYMPHANGITIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MASSAGE; MEMBRANE FILTER; MEMBRANE FILTRATION METHOD; MYALGIA; NEMATODE; OMENTOPLASTY; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REST; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SORE THROAT; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; FILARIASIS; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM;

EID: 55249114126     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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