Assertion: lymphatic filariasis | /r/HasProperty | lf
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text: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is commonly known as elephantiasis.
text: What is Lymphatic Filariasis (LF)?
text: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is the primary cause for lymphedema worldwide and is a painful and extremely disfiguring disease, which has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a leading cause for permanent and long-term disability in the world.
text: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is commonly known as elephantiasis.
text: Currently, more than 1.3 billion people in 72 countries live at risk of contracting lymphatic filariasis (LF).
text: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF): (lim-fat-ik fĭl’ə-rī’ə-sĭs) is a parasitic disease endemic throughout the world, but found primarily in Africa, India, and the Pacific islands.
text: Podoconiosis is a type of tropical lymphoedema clinically distinguished from lymphatic filariasis (LF) through being ascending and commonly bilateral but asymmetric.
text: In 2007,** 546 million people around the world were treated to prevent transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF), commonly known as elephantiasis.
text: The world is on a path towards the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF), a major neglected tropical disease (NTD) and parasitic infection transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori.
text: Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) can cause swelling of body parts and alter the immune system.
text: The theme, “A Future Free of Lymphatic Filariasis: Reaching the Vision by Scaling Up, Scaling Down and Reaching Out”, emphasized new strategies and partnerships necessary to reach the 2020 goal of elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public-health problem.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) caused by microscopic, thread-like worms.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a parasitic disease caused by three species of microscopic, thread-like worms.
text: The causative agents of lymphatic filariasis (LF) include the mosquito-borne filarial nematodes Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, B. timori
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease caused by microscopic, thread-like worms.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by a group of parasitic worms that are transmitted through the bites of infected mosquitoes.
text: The causative agents of lymphatic filariasis (LF) include the mosquito-borne filarial nematodes Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, B. timori
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) , is also known as or as elephantiasis
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a deforming and disabling infectious disease that causes elephantiasis of the extremities and genital deformity, especially hydroceles in men.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by infection with threadlike worms called nematodes of the family Filarioidea: 90% of infections are caused by Wuchereria bancrofti and the remainder by Brugia spp. .
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a parasitic infection caused by worms (nematodes) which can lead to changes in the lymphatic system and trigger chronic lymphedema, abnormal enlargement of parts of the body (elephantiasis), pain, severe disability, stigma, and social exclusion.
text: In 1997, as a result of advances in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphatic filariasis (LF), the disease was classed as one of six infectious diseases considered to be “eradicable” or “potentially eradicable”.
text: The disfiguring disease lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of most visible of the neglected tropical diseases.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a disabling, mosquito-borne disease of humans caused by the parasitic filarial nematodes Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Brugia timori.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is also known as Elephantiasis.
text: In 1997, WHO and its Member States made a commitment to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem through World Health Assembly resolution WHA50.29.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) affects 40 million individuals in 73 countries stretching from Africa to Asia.
text: Before becoming involved with one of India’s programs that help people with lymphatic filariasis (LF) manage their symptoms, Indumati was one of the millions of LF patients with little hope that her pain, social isolation, and disfigurement would ever improve.
text: Greater private sector innovation, digital tools key to quality healthcare services in India at low cost: Bill Gates 17 Nov, 2019, 12.56 PM IST Bill Gates, who is currently on a three-day visit to India, said: "Our biggest work has been broadly in the health area helping to get new vaccines introduced, helping to look at innovations in some of the disease-specific areas, like tuberculosis or visceral leishmaniasis (VL) or lymphatic filariasis (LF).
text: Abstract Introduction A global strategy of mass drug administration (MDA) has greatly reduced the burden of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in endemic countries.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF), the second most common vector-borne parasitic disease after malaria, is found in over 80 tropical and subtropical countries.
text: Samoa has become the first country to implement the new triple drug regimen recommended by WHO for the treatment of lymphatic filariasis (LF), a disabling and disfiguring neglected tropical disease.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) can be eliminated as a public health problem worldwide within 15 years.
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a parasitic infection caused by worms (nematodes) which can lead to changes in the lymphatic system and trigger chronic lymphedema, abnormal enlargement of parts of the body (elephantiasis), pain, severe disability, stigma, and social exclusion.
text: duodenale)—schistosomiasis, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis (LF).
text: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a severely debilitating and stigmatizing disease caused by parasitic worms.
text: According to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India still has over 2.3 crore people suffering with lifelong disability due to lymphatic filariasis (LF).