"Culex spp.: widespread in urban and semi-urban areas"
"Anopheles spp.: mainly in rural areas"
"Aedes spp.: mainly in endemic islands in the Pacific"
"Wuchereria bancrofti: responsible for 90% of cases"
"Brugia malayi: causes most of the remainder of cases"
"Brugia timori: causes a minority of cases"
"Culex spp.: widespread in urban and semi-urban areas"
"Anopheles spp.: mainly in rural areas"
"Aedes spp.: mainly in endemic islands in the Pacific"
"Wuchereria bancrofti: responsible for 90% of cases"
"Brugia malayi: causes most of the remainder of cases"
"Brugia timori: causes a minority of cases"
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"Complications"
"Known disease of the tropics and subtropics and a cause of morbidity in Asia, Africa and the Western Pacific regions 2."
"Lymphatic filariasis is caused by infection with nematodes (roundworms) of the superfamily Filarioidea. There are three types of these thread-like filarial nematodes:"