User:Rajsandhu1/Mansonella streptocerca
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testing. this article be about some heretofore unwikipediatized worms and stuffs.
references about M. streptocerca
http://www.itg.be/itg/distancelearning/lecturenotesvandenendene/41_Filariasisp7.htm
* 7.1 Mansonella streptocerca, general * 7.2 Mansonella streptocerca, clinical features * 7.3 Mansonella streptocerca, diagnosis * 7.4 Mansonella streptocerca, treatment
http://www.nematodes.org/fgn/pnb/manstrep.html
distribution: (pic) Ghana and Zaire
related wikipedia pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansonella http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_(human) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansonelliasis
other web references:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2009/MB_cgi?mode=&term=Mansonella
Yusuf's contribution:
Life-Cycle
The contraction of a Mansonella infection can be better understood through an understanding of its life cycle. The life cycle involves two stages: one involving a Midge (genus Culicoides) and another involving a human host. First, a Midge ingests a blood meal from a human host. This allows a third-stage filarial larvae to enter the bite wound. Once inside the dermis, the larvae develop into adults, usually less than 1 mm from the surface of the skin. In terms of size, the females can reach 27 mm in length, whereas the males can be around 50 micrometers in diameter. These adults then produce non-periodic microfiliariae, which habituate in the skin but can also travel to the peripheral blood. These microfilariae are then passed onto the midge when the insect ingests a blood meal. Following the blood meal, microfilariae travel to the midge’s midgut through the hemocoel to the thoracic muscles. In the thoracic muscles the microfiliariae develop into first-stage larvae, followed up by third-stage development. In this latter stage the larvae travel to the midge’s proboscis, where it can subsequently infect another human host upon another blood meal ingestion.
Reference:
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/Frames/A-F/Filariasis/body_Filariasis_m_streptocerca.htm
Here's new code that's using the code from the Strongyloides stercoralis page as a template:
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Mansonella streptocerca, (formerly "Diptalonema streptocerca"), is the scientific name of a human parasitic roundworm causing the disease of streptocerciasis.
It is a common parasite in the skin of humans in the rain forests of Africa.
It is probably a parasite of chimpanzees in nature.
(reference: foundations of parasitology, 8th ed, p 473-474... from Meyers, 2000, in Hunter's tropical medicine and emerging infectious disease 8th ed.)
Strongyloides stercoralis is a nematode that can parasitize humans. The adult parasitic stage lives in tunnels in the mucosa of the small intestine. The genus Strongyloides contains 53 species[1][2] and S. stercoralis is the type species. S. stercoralis has been reported in other mammals, including cats and dogs. However, it seems that the species in dogs is typically not S. stercoralis, but the related species S. canis. Non-human primates are more commonly infected with S. fuelleborni and S. cebus although S. stercoralis has been reported in captive primates. Other species of Strongyloides naturally parasitic in humans, but with restricted distributions, are S. fuelleborni in central Africa and S. kellyi in Papua New Guinea.