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Zambia: A Narrative Review of Success and Challenges in Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
The establishment of the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) to stop the transmission of infection has significantly reduced the incidence of lymphatic filariasis, a debilitating mosquito-borne neglected tropical disease.
Kingford Chimfwembe, Hugh Shirley, Natalie Baker, Richard Wamai   +3 more
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Elephantiasis, or Filaria Disease [PDF]

Science, 1883
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When lymphedema becomes elephantiasis: a multidisciplinary challenge in a patient with severe obesity and cardiopulmonary comorbidities

Veins and Lymphatics
Lymphedema is a progressive condition that can reach an extreme, debilitating stage known as elephantiasis. This case presents a 57-year-old man with stage III by International Society of Lymphology (ISL) lower limb primary lymphedema diagnosed by a ...
Bruno Soggia, Gabriele Fanciulli, Ilaria Manfrini, Jacob Zeitani, Mirko Tessari   +4 more
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Obesity-Associated Abdominal Elephantiasis

Case Reports in Medicine, 2013
Abdominal elephantiasis is a rare entity. Abdominal elephantiasis is an uncommon, but deformative and progressive cutaneous disease caused by chronic lymphedema and recurrent streptococcal or Staphylococcus infections of the abdominal wall.
Ritesh Kohli, Vivian Argento, Yaw Amoateng-Adjepong   +2 more
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CONGENITAL ELEPHANTIASIS ASSOCIATED WITH CONSTRICTION BY ANOMALOUS BANDS [PDF]

, 1948
A. W. Farmer
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The Design of the Mosquito and Its Dangers [PDF]

, 2016
Mosquitoes (Family Culicidae) have been the scourge of mankind since the Fall. Although seemingly designed to inflict suffering and pain via rapid reproduction and formidable mouthparts, evidence mounts that this creature was not always the deadly vector
Gillen, Alan L., Sherwin, Frank
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Elephantiasis Arabum in the Samoan Islands [PDF]

, 1882
ARTHUR C. HEFFINGER
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A Case of Exuberant Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2017
N/A.
Luís Santiago, Inês Coutinho, Maria Manuel Brites   +2 more
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Filariasis and Elephantiasis in Fiji. [PDF]

, 1912

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ELEPHANTIASIS AND THE KONDOLEON OPERATION [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914
In my section of the country, elephantiasis is certainly an uncommon disease. My only case, and the only one so far recorded by any observer from this state, is the one herewith presented. By a fortunate circumstance, about the time this patient was admitted, there came from Dr.
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