Filariasis
1979; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 300; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1056/nejm197905173002004
ISSN1533-4406
Autores Tópico(s)Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
ResumoTHE filarial parasites have a special intellectual attraction for parasitologists and clinicians because of their complex life cycles, all involving transmission by blood-sucking insects, and the bizarre symptoms and pathologic changes that they cause. They also hold a special place for those involved in tropical medicine because tropical medicine as a distinct discipline was born just over a hundred years ago in 1877, when Patrick Manson discovered that the filarial parasites that cause elephantiasis in man are transmitted by mosquitoes. During the next hundred years it was found that filarial parasites occurred in almost all orders of vertebrates, in amphibians, . . .
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