What's the difference between alfilaria and filaria?
Alfilaria
Definition:
(n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
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Filaria
Definition:
(n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.
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(1) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
(2) 1816) for the term "loa," designating a species of filaria, pathogenic in humans, which is common tropical West Africa.
(3) A list is provided of the naturally or experimentally Aedes aegypti transmitted arboviruses (103), protozoans (5) and filaria (20).
(4) A key to infective larvae of 8 species of filaria was worked out according to relevant literature and the present study.
(5) A new therapeutic target has been identified from the filaria Molinema dessetae: the gabaergic system.
(6) In 8, a motile worm that apparently was not a filaria was observed.
(7) Hard-ticks (Ixodidae) appear to be the main vectors of filariae with skin-dwelling microfilariae belonging to Dipetalonema evolutionary line: Yatesia, Cherylia, Cercopithifiliaria, Monanema.
(8) Excluding D. filaria, a mean of 97.7% of the ovine and 96.0% of the bovine nematode larvae were alive when thawed.
(9) Recurrent skin edemata due to an infestation with the filaria Loa loa are called Cameroon or Calabar swellings.
(10) This three-phase study was designed to compare high dose ivermectin with a standard diethylcarbamazine (DEC) regimen for patient tolerability, potential to kill adult filaria, and duration of microfilarial suppression in 30 Haitian subjects with Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaremia.
(11) The intact and cut surfaces of microfilariae and eggs and sperm present in filariae were stained, but not their internal contents.
(12) The two analogues were less potent than antimycin A at impairing respiration of either filariae or beef heart submitochondrial particles.
(13) However, it appears that the characteristics of different filaria species can play an important role in preventing such damages.
(14) The biology of the human filaria Mansonella perstans has been poorly studied due in part to the lack of experimental animal models in which its life-cycle could be reproduced.
(15) Although the mechanism of anti-filarial activity of the quinoline-containing drugs is not known, their in vitro activity against a variety of adult filariae at clinically relevant concentrations, as well as differential sensitivity seen between the different filariae examined, warrants further study of these compounds.
(16) The data confirm filariae sensitivity to GABA derivatives.
(17) Adult filariae were found in the abdominal air sacs of two cockatoos and two red lories and identified as Cardiofilaria sp.
(18) Filaria surveys conducted in some select slum clusters namely Hari Nagar, Yamuna pusht near Vijaya Ghat along the Ring Road and Timarpur in Delhi during 1989, 1991 and 1992 respectively, covering a population of approximately 5000 slum dwellers revealed the presence of bancroftian microfilaria (mf) carriers and disease cases.
(19) We present here four cases of pulmonary dirofilariasis in which histological examination of the surgical specimen showed occlusion of the peripheral pulmonary artery by filariae and formation of a necrotic mass surrounded by reactive inflammation and hemorrhage.
(20) The course of microfilaraemia and the number of macrofilariae were comparable in mono- and simultaneous infections for both species of filariae.