Imported Asymptomatic Bancroftian Filariasis Discovered from a Plasmodium vivax Infected Patient: A Case Report from Singapore

Figure 1

Microphotographs of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaria in blood smears. (a–d) Thin blood films; (e–k) thick blood films; (a, e, j) full size microfilaria; (b) head and body details; (c, f) head details; (d) body and tail details; (g, h) body details; (i) tapered tail tip details free of terminal nuclei; (k) detail of the inner body. Coloured arrows represent sheath (orange), cephalic space (blue), nerve ring (red), excretory pore (pink), excretory cell (purple), inner body (black), germinal cells (green), and anal pore (brown) across the different pictures. Scale bars: (a, e, j) = 50 µm; (b–d, f–i, k) = 10 µm.