Manson, P. (English spelling) MansonP

Japanese: Manson,P.(英語表記)MansonP
Manson, P. (English spelling) MansonP

...The existence of elephantiasis has been known for a long time, and among the statues excavated in Nigeria that are thought to date back to around 500 BC, there is one that has a huge scrotum caused by elephantiasis. However, it was Patrick Manson who revealed in 1878 that infection with Bancroft's disease is transmitted by mosquitoes. When microfilariae appear in the peripheral blood vessels of an infected person and enter the mosquito's body by sucking blood, they shed their sheaths in the midgut, migrate to the pectoral muscle, and become sausage-shaped worms, which then molt twice to become infective larvae. ...

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Japanese:

…象皮病の存在は古くから知られており,ナイジェリアから出土した前500年ころまでさかのぼれる時代の作品と思われる彫像のなかに,象皮病による巨大な陰囊を有するものがある。しかし,バンクロフトシジョウチュウの感染がカにより媒介されることを明らかにしたのはマンソンPatrick Mansonで,1878年のことである。感染者の末梢血管中に出現したミクロフィラリアは,吸血によってカ体内に入ると,中腸で脱鞘して胸筋に移行し,ソーセージ状の虫体となり,さらに2回脱皮して感染幼虫となる。…

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