2024年11月21日 · Lymphatic filariasis is transmitted by different types of mosquitoes, for example by the Culex mosquito, widespread across urban and semi-urban areas, Anopheles, mainly found in rural areas, and Aedes, mainly in endemic islands in the Pacific. Symptoms. Lymphatic filariasis infection involves asymptomatic, acute and chronic conditions.

2020年1月30日 · Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, is a painful and profoundly disfiguring parasitic disease. In communities where the parasite is transmitted, all ages are affected. While the infection may be acquired during childhood its visible manifestations may occur later in life, causing temporary or permanent disability.

2025年1月22日 · Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic disease that can result in an altered lymphatic system and the abnormal enlargement of body parts, causing pain, severe disability and social stigma. Infection occurs when filarial parasites are transmitted to humans through mosquitoes.

2018年10月8日 · Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic disease that can result in an altered lymphatic system and the abnormal enlargement of body parts, causing pain, severe disability, and social stigma. Infection occurs when filarial parasites are transmitted to humans through mosquitoes.

2021年3月5日 · Since the first edition of Lymphatic Filariasis: Managing Morbidity and Preventing Disability: An Aide-Memoire for National Programme Managers was published by the World Health Organization in 2013, significant progress has been made in reducing filarial infection globally and there has been a groundswell of support for expanding availability to morbidity …

The method is inexpensive and feasible at individual and community levels for mapping the endemicity of lymphatic filariasis and monitoring mass drug administration (MDA). The Alere Filariasis Test Strip (FTS) is a rapid diagnostic test recommended for mapping, monitoring and transmission assessment surveys (TAS) for the qualitative detection ...

2019年10月7日 · Kiribati has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem. The Pacific island nation joins 11 other countries and areas in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region to have defeated the disfiguring tropical disease.WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Dr Takeshi Kasai, WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan and Chair of …

2024年10月4日 · Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a vector-borne disease in humans caused by infection with the filarial parasites Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi and B. timori. Infections damage the lymphatic vessels and impair vessel function, leading to clinical manifestations such as lymphoe\u0002dema and hydrocele. WHO established the Global Programme to Eliminate …

2013年9月3日 · The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis has scaled up its activities more rapidly than almost any other global public health programme. By the end of 2011, 53 of 73 endemic countries were implementing mass drug administration, and more than 3.9 billion treatments had been delivered to 952 million people. Challenges remain, however, in …

Integrated mapping of lymphatic filariasis and podoconiosis in Ethiopia has been completed thanks to collaboration among the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI), the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (LSTM) and the Global Atlas of Helminth Infections (GAHI) at the London ...