A genus of mosquitoes, some species of which can be involved in the transmission of human filariasis due to Brugia malayi and Wuchereria bancrofti.
Most mosquitoes that are not anophelines fall into this group. Culicines are not vectors of human malaria, but the subfamily includes the important genera Aedes, Culex and Mansonia. May transmit a number of diseases (eg, yellow fever, dengue fever, filariasis, viral encephalitis).... culicine
n. a genus of threadlike parasitic worms (see filaria). B. malayi infects humans throughout southeast Asia, causing *filariasis and *elephantiasis (especially of the feet and legs). B. pahangi, a parasite of wild cats and domestic animals, produces an allergic condition in humans, with coughing, breathing difficulty, and an increase in the number of *eosinophils in the blood. Brugia undergoes part of its development in mosquitoes of the genera Anopheles and Mansonia, which transmit the parasite from host to host.... brugia
n. a disease, common in the tropics and subtropics, caused by the presence in the lymph vessels of the parasitic nematode worms Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi (see filaria). The worms, which are transmitted to humans by various mosquitoes (including Aëdes, Culex, Anopheles, and Mansonia), bring about inflammation and eventual blocking of lymph vessels, which causes the surrounding tissues to swell (see elephantiasis). The rupture of urinary lymphatics may lead to the presence of *chyle in the urine. Filariasis is treated with the drug *diethylcarbamazine.... filariasis
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