Sentences with phrase «filarial nematodes»
While medications currently exist to treat lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, the two main diseases caused by filarial nematodes, the drugs are insufficient to eliminate the diseases by 2020 and researchers project that resistance will arise to some of the drugs.
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Most filarial nematodes are hosts to Wolbachia bacteria, and require the bacteria for their own development, reproduction, and survival.
«Filarial nematode infections: Symbiotic relationship between bacteria and filarial nematodes.»
Dirofilaria repens is a zoonotic filarial nematode parasite of dogs, cats and wild carnivores transmitted by mosquitoes (Pampiglione et al., 1995).
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Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by a species of filarial round worms, or nematodes, transmitted by mosquitoes.