eye worm การใช้

• Maturing larvae and adults of the " eye worm " occupy the subcutaneous layer of the skin & ndash; the fat layer & ndash; of humans, causing disease.
• Eosinophilia is often prominent in all cases of Mansonelliasis . " M . perstans " can also present with Calabar-like swellings, hives, and a condition known as Kampala, or Ugandan eye worm.
• Its life cycle involves eggs passing through a bird's lachrymal duct, being swallowed and passed in the bird's feces, a " P . surinamensis " cockroach eating the feces, larvae emerging in the cockroach, the bird eating the cockroach, and finally the eye worm larvae migrating up the oesophagus and pharynx to the bird's eye.
• Synonyms for the disease include African eye worm, loaiasis, loaina, " Loa loa " filariasis, filaria loa, filaria lacrimalis, filaria subconjunctivalis, Calabar swellings, Fugitive swellings, and microfilaria diurnal . " Loa loa ", the scientific name for the infectious agent, is an indigenous term itself and it is likely that there are many other terms used from region to region.