Lymphatic filariasis is a disease spread by mosquitoes infected with one of three filarial nematodes. In an effort to better understand the transcriptomic interplay of organisms associated with ...

Close to a billion people worldwide remain threatened by lymphatic filariasis, a neglected tropical disease commonly referred to as elephantiasis. This parasitic infection, which is caused by a ...

More than 150 million people worldwide are infected with filarial parasites -- long, thread-like worms that can live for years inside the human body and cause severe, debilitating diseases such as ...

Chai Kivatsi a father of six from Mbaoni Village, suffering from Lymphatic Filariasis. His legs and hands are swollen. [Beldeen Waliaula, Standard] Katana Chengo, a resident of Mbaoni village, ...

A single course of one antibiotic can successfully treat elephantiasis (filariasis)--a parasitic worm disease that is one of the most common causes of global disability, concludes a study published in ...

Treatment with two common FDA-approved gout medications have been found to cause rapid death to the parasites that cause elephantiasis. Researchers at the Uniformed Services University (USU) have ...

A NEW interest in tropical diseases has been attained in American medicine because of the widespread contact with exotic diseases by troops in the worldwide conflict that terminated on V-J Day. Among ...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have shown that a single "cocktail" of three pill-based anti-parasite medications is significantly more effective at killing ...

Using innovative RNA sequencing techniques, researchers identified a promising novel treatment for lymphatic filariasis, a disabling parasitic disease that is difficult to treat. The potential new ...

The World Health Organization predicted on Tuesday a devastating parasitic infection known as elephantiasis will be eliminated by 2015. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...