THE FILIARIASES 



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The Microfilaria volvulus has no sheath, is sharply pointed, and 

 does not look unlike the Mf. bancrofti out of its sheath. They are not 

 seen in the blood-stream. 



This is 

 Daniels : — 

 (i) The 



(2) The 

 present in 



(3) The 



(4) The 



(5) The 



(6) The 

 For the 



The Diagnosis of Microfilaria. 

 not always easy. The points of value are, according to 



presence or absence of a loose sheath, 

 periodicity — that is, the times when the embryos arc 

 the blood-stream. 



character of the termination at the narrow end. 

 nuclear matter and how it terminates anteriorly, 

 dimensions of the embryo, dead and alive, 

 position assumed by the worm after death, 

 differential points the reader is referred to the table above. 



