Brugia
"Brugia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A filarial worm of Southeast Asia, producing filariasis and elephantiasis in various mammals including man. It was formerly included in the genus WUCHERERIA.
| Descriptor ID |
D002009
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.700.750.700.300.088
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brugia" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Venugopal G, O'Regan NL, Babu S, Schumann RR, Srikantam A, Merle R, Hartmann S, Steinfelder S. Association of a PD-L2 Gene Polymorphism with Chronic Lymphatic Filariasis in a South Indian Cohort. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2019 02; 100(2):344-350.