The text below simply represents a crude lecture outline of one of the topics covered in class. It is not meant to substitute for attending lectures or ignoring the textbook. Additional material, including line drawings, kodachromes, and more extensive information on life-cycles and basic biology, will be supplied in the lectures. This is a diverse group which use arthropod intermediate hosts.
All species use arthropod intermediate hosts.
Filariidae small to medium size vulva anterior the nerve ring elicit skin lesions and release eggs or larvae that attract arthropod vectors, mainly flies small group, few genera representative species, all in mammals Parafilaria spp.