The NIH-NIAID Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center.

• Main Authors: Michelle L Michalski (Author), Kathryn G Griffiths (Author), Steven A Williams (Author), Ray M Kaplan (Author), Andrew R Moorhead (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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 so...