Zoonotic Brugia pahangi filariasis in a suburbia of Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Tan, L.H., Fong, M.Y., Mahmud, R., Muslim, A., Lau, Y.L., Kamarulzaman, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/2737/1/Zoonotic_Brugia_pahangi_filariasis_in_a_suburbia_of_Kuala_Lumpur_City%2C_Malaysia.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/2737/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383576910001558

Five local Malaysian patients with clinical manifestations consistent with lymphatic filariasis were referred to our medical centre between 2003 and 2006. Although no microfilariae (mf) were detected in their nocturnal blood samples, all were diagnosed to have lymphatic filariasis on the basis of cl...