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1975
An Hand von 6 Diapositiven wird der Ubertragermodus der tropischen Wurmerkrankung Loa loa sowie ihre Verbreitung in Westafrika demonstriert. Ein 6minutiger Farbfilm (16 mm) zeigt — neben der Extraktion einer weiblichen Filarie aus dem subkonjunktivalen Kaum — die verschiedenen Bewegungs-phanomene der Mikrofilarien im Blut des Patienten.
J, Grüntzig, W, Schmitt, W, Tillmann
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Ultrastructure of Loa loa microfilaria

International Journal for Parasitology, 1983
Abstract The ultrastructure of Loa loa microfilaria was elucidated by the usc of scanning and transmission electron microscopy during the examination of microfiIariae for the presence of intracellular bacteria. In general, the structure of the sheath, body wall, nerve ring, amphids, phasmids, excretory and anal vesicles, central body, and the R ...
W J, Kozek, T C, Orihel
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Lymphadenitis caused by Loa loa

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1984
The World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for the Histopathology of Filarial Diseases of Man contains specimens of lymph node from 13 patients infected by the filarial nematode Loa loa. Ten of these nodes have distinctive microscopic features characterized by distended sinuses that contain histiocytes and eosinophils and by atrophy of ...
F P, Paleologo, R C, Neafie, D H, Connor
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Loa loa infection without microfilaraemia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1975
Abstract A diagnosis of loasis without microfilaraemia was made in the United States of America 8 to 11 years after the patient's exposure in an endemic area of Central Africa. Surgical removal of 5 parasites from the patient's eyelids during a span of 7 years revealed that all were mature, unfertilized females.
L K, Eveland, V, Yermakov, M, Kenney
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