"Brugia malayi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of parasitic nematode causing Malayan filariasis and having a distribution centering roughly on the Malay peninsula. The life cycle of B. malayi is similar to that of WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI, except that in most areas the principal mosquito vectors belong to the genus Mansonia.
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D017178
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.500.294.400.937.463.088.500
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| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Brugia malayi" by people in Profiles.
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Arumugam S, Wei J, Liu Z, Abraham D, Bell A, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ, Zhan B, Lustigman S, Klei TR. Vaccination of Gerbils with Bm-103 and Bm-RAL-2 Concurrently or as a Fusion Protein Confers Consistent and Improved Protection against Brugia malayi Infection. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Apr; 10(4):e0004586.
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Arumugam S, Wei J, Ward D, Abraham D, Lustigman S, Zhan B, Klei TR. Vaccination with a genetically modified Brugia malayi cysteine protease inhibitor-2 reduces adult parasite numbers and affects the fertility of female worms following a subcutaneous challenge of Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) with B. malayi infective larvae. Int J Parasitol. 2014 Sep; 44(10):675-9.
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Arumugam S, Zhan B, Abraham D, Ward D, Lustigman S, Klei TR. Vaccination with recombinant Brugia malayi cystatin proteins alters worm migration, homing and final niche selection following a subcutaneous challenge of Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) with B. malayi infective larvae. Parasit Vectors. 2014 Jan 22; 7:43.