象皮病

拉达瓦拉医生在孟买同BBC通话时谈到，艾哈迈德女士的家人称，刚出生时，她的体重为五公斤，并且被诊断出象皮病--这是一种肢体或者身体其他部分由于寄生虫感染而肿胀的病。

Ms Ahmed 's family says she weighed 5kg at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis , a condition in which a limb or other body parts swell due to a parasitic infection , Dr Lakdawala told the BBC in a phone call from Mumbai .

蚊子也会携带淋巴丝虫病，也称为象皮病。

Mosquitoes also carry lymphatic filariasis , also known as elephantiasis .

针刺对胃扩张模型大鼠孤束核c-fos表达及胃内压的影响微血管扩张性运动失调淋巴管扩张性象皮病

The Effect of Acupuncture on Gastric Pressure and c-fos Expression in Nucleus of the Solitary Tract of Rats Gastric Distention Model

科学家测出了象皮病的病原体马来丝虫（Brugiamalayi）的基因组序列，这一成果可能有助于开发针对该病的新药。

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the parasites that causes elephantiasis , a move that could lead to new drug targets for the disease .

淋巴丝虫病，俗称象皮病，是一种被忽视的热带疾病。

Lymphatic filariasis , commonly known as elephantiasis , is a neglected tropical disease .

科学家在加纳的象皮病普遍流行的一个地区开展了这项研究。

The recent study was carried out in a region of Ghana where the disease is common .

有的人小腿溃烂，伤口裂开，受象皮病困饶却仍然持续劳作于秧田间。

Men with ulcerated legs , open wounds and elephantiasis still carry on with their work in the flooded rice-fields .

急性发作期症状为局部皮肤炎症、淋巴结炎和淋巴管炎，经常伴随慢性淋巴水肿或象皮病。

Acute episodes of local inflammation involving skin , lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels often accompany the chronic lymphoedema or elephantiasis .

加纳的科学家证明了服用一个疗程的廉价的抗生素多西环素可以预防并缓解淋巴丝虫病的症状。淋巴丝虫病是一种能够毁容的热带疾病，它又称作象皮病。

Research in Ghana has shown that a single course of a cheap antibiotic can prevent and relieve symptoms of the disfiguring tropical disease lymphatic filariasis .

为了发现马来丝虫基因组中与象皮病相关的基因，他们比较了马来丝虫和其他两种线虫的基因组。

It compares the genome of Brugia malayi , a parasitic worm , with those of two other organisms to identify genes specifically associated to parasitism .

阿卜杜拉蒂的家人称，她出生时体重是5公斤，后被诊断出患有象皮病，即因寄生虫感染导致肢体肿大。

Ms Abd El Aty 's family says she weighed 5kg at birth and was diagnosed with elephantiasis , a condition in which body parts swell due to a parasitic infection .