They looked at two worm species: Brugia malayi, which causes swelling of the ... at family reunion But do these viruses affect the humans that nematodes infect? To investigate, the researchers ...

When a mosquito bites a person who has lymphatic filariasis, microscopic worms circulating in the person's blood enter and infect the mosquito. When the infected mosquito bites another person, the ...

This month's Genome Watch describes genomes of several nematodes, including that of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi. Drug treatments for filariasis have not changed significantly in over ...

malayi and W. bancrofti replicate through a complicated life cycle that begins in humans with a bite from an infected mosquito, followed by growth of the nematode and its localization in the ...