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A tropical infectious disease found mainly in Africa that is caused by the filarial parasite ACANTHOCHEILONEMA. Symptoms include skin rashes, abdominal, chest, muscle, and joint pains, neurologic disorders, skin lumps, and elevated levels of white blood cells. The parasite is transmitted through the bite of small flies.
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- Acanthocheilonemiases
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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infection with ACANTHOCHEILONEMA PERSTANS = ACANTHOCHEILONEMIASIS PERSTANS INFECTION see MANSONELLIASIS
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2013
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- National Library of Medicine. Acanthocheilonemiasis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D063485. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D063485
- Acanthocheilonemiasis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthocheilonemiasis
- Acanthocheilonemiasis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4059313