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Descriptor English: Acanthocheilonemiasis
Descriptor Spanish: Acantoqueilonemiasis
Descriptor acantoqueilonemiasis
Scope note: Enfermedad infecciosa tropical que aparece predominantemente en África y es causada por la filaria parásita ACANTHOCHEILONEMA. Entre sus síntomas se incluyen erupciones cutáneas, dolores abdominales, torácicos, musculares y articulares, trastornos neurológicos, tumores cutáneos y leucocitosis. El parásito se transmite a través de la picadura de pequeñas moscas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Acantoqueilonemíase
Descriptor French: Infection à Acanthocheilonema perstans
Entry term(s): Acanthocheilonemiases
Tree number(s): C01.610.335.508.700.750.361.137
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D063485
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: infection with ACANTHOCHEILONEMA PERSTANS = ACANTHOCHEILONEMIASIS PERSTANS INFECTION see MANSONELLIASIS
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2013
History Note: 2013
DeCS ID: 54878
Unique ID: D063485
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Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 2012/07/03
Revision Date: 2015/06/16
Acanthocheilonemiasis - Preferred
Concept UI M0006506
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Acanthocheilonemiasis
Entry term(s) Acanthocheilonemiases



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