
Filarial infection and dracontiasis

Bancroftian filariasis

Malayan filariasis

Loiasis

Onchocerciasis
- infection with nematodes of the genus Onchocerca; characteristics include the presence of firm subcutaneous nodules filled with adult worms, pruritus, and ocular lesions.

Dipetalonemiasis

Mansonella ozzardi infection

Other specified filariasis

Dracontiasis

Unspecified filariasis
- infections with nematodes of the superfamily Filarioidea; presence of living worms in the body is mainly asymptomatic but the death of adult worms leads to granulomatous inflammation and permanent fibrosis; organisms of the genus Elaeophora infect wild elk and domestic sheep causing ischaemic necrosis of the brain, blindness, and dermatosis of the face.