Parasitic disease caused by a family of nematode worms

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'Banocide' : Bancroftian filariasis, Malayan filariasis, loiasis, tropical eosinophilia, onchocerciasis / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.

A parasitic nematode (Filaria immitis) and its vector, the mosquito (Myzomyia superpicta). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

Unsuspected diagnoses 2 / Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

Annotated bibliography of filariasis, and elephantiasis / by M.O.T. Iyengar.

WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis : third report.

Observations on the periodicity of Microfilaria nocturna / by Warrington Yorke and B. Blacklock.

Observations on the natural history of human filariasis in Fiji : a report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on investigations conducted over the period 1954-1956 / by C.B. Symes.

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Annotated bibliography of filariasis, and elephantiasis / by M.O.T. Iyengar.

WHO Expert Committee on Filariasis : third report.

'Banocide' : Bancroftian filariasis, Malayan filariasis, loiasis, tropical eosinophilia, onchocerciasis / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

Observations on the periodicity of Microfilaria nocturna / by Warrington Yorke and B. Blacklock.

Observations on the natural history of human filariasis in Fiji : a report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on investigations conducted over the period 1954-1956 / by C.B. Symes.