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Wuchereria bancrofti，同Filaria。病额
The effects of W. bancrofti were documented early in ancient text. Greek and Roman writers noted the similarities between the enlarged limbs and cracked skin of an infected individual to that of an elephant. Since Greek and Roman times, this condition has been commonly known as elephantiasis. However, this is a misnomer, since elephantiasis literally translates to “a disease caused by elephants.”
W. bancrofti was named after physician Otto Wucherer and parasitologist Joseph Bancroft, both of whom extensively studied filarial infections.
It is speculated that W. bancrofti was brought over to the New World by the slave trade.[2] Once it was introduced to the New World, this filarial worm disease persisted throughout the areas surrounding Charleston, South Carolina until its sudden disappearance in the 1920s.[3]