The NIH-NIAID Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center.

ABSTRACT: Filarial worms cause a variety of tropical diseases in humans; however, they are difficult to study because they have complex life cycles that require arthropod intermediate hosts and mammalian definitive hosts. Research efforts in industrialized countries are further complicated by the fact that some filarial nematodes that cause disease in humans are restricted in host specificity to humans alone. This potentially makes the commitment to research difficult, expensive, and restrictive. Over 40 years ago, the United States National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH-NIAID) established a resource from which investigators could obtain various filarial parasite species and life cycle stages without having to expend the effort and funds necessary to

SUBMITTER: Michalski ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3226539 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature