| Transmission occurs when a mosquito bites an infected human, picking up the microfilariae, which develop into larvae. |
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| After mating, the female viviparously produce microfilariae which move throughout the circulatory system and are taken up by the mosquito host. |
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| Over a week or so, these microfilariae develop into infective larvae and can be transmitted when the fly bites another person. |
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| When a mosquito bites an infected animal, the heartworm microfilariae are ingested along with the blood. |
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| The human body is the host, the filarial nematode worm the agent, and the mosquito that picks up microfilariae during feeding the transmitter of the disease. |
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| According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood. |
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| The presence of the cibarial armature, for example, is an efficient tool for damaging microfilariae as they pass through the pharynx. |
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| Immune responses directed against microfilariae correlate with soverity of clinical onchodermatitis and treatment history. |
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| Blood-borne microfilariae were seen in cytologic impression smears of the lung and the leg lesions. |
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| The use of acetoorcein-stained squash preparations for enumeration of nuclei in microfilariae of various filarial parasites. |
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| In vitro effect of four herbal plants on the motility of Brugia malayi microfilariae. |
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| Pleural aspirate showed an exudative pattern, and cytological examination revealed a predominance of lymphocytes, few eosinophils, mesothelial cells and microfilariae. |
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