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It is the most common symptom of clinical lymphatic filariasis and may occur alone or may be associated with some other clinical manifestation of filariasis. Fever associated with elephantiasis is called as “elephantoid fever.”
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Goel, T.C., Goel, A. (2016). Filarial Fever. In: Lymphatic Filariasis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2257-9_12
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