- Microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti, from a patient seen in Haiti. Thick blood smears stained with hematoxylin.
- Wuchereria bancrofti is also known as Bancroft’s filarial, and the diseases and conditions associated with it are known as Bancroft’s filariasis or...
- Wuchereria bancrofti adı, 1856'da bir hastanın idrarında nematodu bulan Alman-Brezilyalı hekim Otto Wucherer'e (1820-1873) geri döner.
- Wuchereria bancrofti is distributed throughout the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, China, the Pacific and isolated locations in the Americas.
- Wuchereria bancrofti is distributed widely in tropics and subtropics of Asia (India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China), Africa and South America.
- Wuchereria bancrofti infection is caused by wuchereria bancrofti parasitic worms. The intermediate host is mosquito.
- It is a common pathogen that causes the disease known as lymphatic filariasis in humans. Wuchereria bancrofti. Source: See page for author.
- Lymphatic filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by thread-like worms called Wuchereria bancrofti. The parasite is carried from person to person by mosquitoes.
- Wuchereria Bancrofti – The Filarial Worm. The generic name of this worm is named after Wucherer who first reported it in1866. The species name is after Bancroft...
- · Manson discovered that Wuchereria bancrofti requires transmission through the skin by a blood-sucking intermediate host.
