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The most widespread and common human filarial parasite is Wuchereria bancrofti, which currently infects around 100 million people in the humid tropics. The most common vector in towns is the ubiquitous tropical house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus; however, anopheline mosquitoes are important vectors in rural areas. The other major filarial parasite of humans transmitted by mosquitoes is Brugia malayi, which is patchily distributed in India and Southeast Asia. Mosquito-borne filariasis, widely known for the disfiguring elephantiasis which occurs in a proportion of cases, is still a major public health problem in the tropics. Considerable research effort has been expended on developing improved methods of chemotherapy, on immunodi-agnosis and on understanding the factors that influence transmission by mosquitoes.
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Townson, H. (1997). Infection of mosquitoes with filaria . In: Crampton, J.M., Beard, C.B., Louis, C. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1535-0_9
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