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loiasis

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loiasis [‚lȯi′ā·səs]
(medicine)
A filariasis of tropical Africa, caused by the filariaLoa,and characterized by diurnal periodicity of microfilariae in the blood, and transient cutaneous swelling caused by migrating adult worms.
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Most (tissue-dwelling) filariases (apart from a few blood-dwelling species such as Mansonella perstans which cause little harm), including onchocerciasis, loiasis and bancroftian filariasis, cause distinct pathologies including characteristic and extensive skin lesions (in long-standing disease).
Parasitic infections often present with nonspecific symptoms by Grobusch, Martin P.; Menezes, Colin N. / CME: Your SA Journal of CPD
Kager discusses loiasis and indicates that "fever is absent.
Imported skin diseases by Dardick, Kenneth / Emerging Infectious Diseases
9) CTS has also been reported with a filarial infection alone (10) and in a combined case of loiasis, schistosomiasis, and trypanosomiasis.
Acute progressive bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome after upper ... by Sawaya, Raja A. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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