obsolete Mansonella ozzardi infectious disease

A mansonelliasis that involves parasitic infection by the nematode Mansonella ozzardi, which resides in the subcutaneous tissues causing arthralgias, headaches, fever, pulmonary symptoms, adenopathy, hepatomegaly, and pruritus. Both midges and blackflies trans

A mansonelliasis that involves parasitic infection by the nematode Mansonella ozzardi, which resides in the subcutaneous tissues causing arthralgias, headaches, fever, pulmonary symptoms, adenopathy, hepatomegaly, and pruritus. Both midges and blackflies transmit the disease.

Also known as: Filariasis ozzardi infection; Mansonella Ozzardi Infection; Ozzardian filariasis (disorder)