B.timori

Brugia timori is a human filarial parasite from Indonesia. Brugia timori is found in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago, such as Timor. Like Brugia malayi it is locally confined to areas endemic to its mosquito vector. The life cycle of brugia timori is almost identical to that of Wuchereria bancrofti and brugia malayi. It is nocturnally periodic and is transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles barbirostris which breeds in rice fields. The microfilariae have several distinguishing features: they are longer with a cephalic space length to width of about 3:1. In addition the sheath does not stain pink with Giemsa stain like brugia malayi and wucheria bancrofti. The adults also differ morphologically from brugia malayi.

ee also

*Hydrocele

External links

* http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2006/Lymphatic_filariasis/Introduction.htm
* http://www.nematodes.org/fgn/pnb/brugtim.html
* http://www.dhpe.org/infect/Lymphfil.html