This creates difficulties for routine mass treatment because people with onchocerciasis in particular react badly to treatment for lymphatic filariasis. Other animals
Filariasis can also affect domesticated animals, such as cattle, sheep, and dogs. Cattle
Verminous hemorrhagic dermatitis is a clinical disease in cattle due to Parafilaria bovicola. Intradermal onchocerciasis of cattle results in losses in leather due to Onchocerca dermata, O. ochengi, and O. dukei. O. ochengi is closely related to human O. volvulus (river blindness), sharing the same vector, and could be useful in human medicine research. Stenofilaria assamensis and others cause different diseases in Asia, in cattle and zebu. Horses
"Summer bleeding" is hemorrhagic subcutaneous nodules in the head and upper forelimbs, caused by Parafilaria multipapillosa (North Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and South America). Dogs
Heart filariasis is caused by Dirofilaria immitis. See also
Ascariasis
Eradication of infectious diseases
Helminthiasis
List of parasites (human)
Neglected tropical diseases

References
Further reading
"Special issue", Indian Journal of Urology, 21 (1), January–June 2005
"Filariasis". Therapeutics in Dermatology. June 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012. External links

Page from the "Merck Veterinary Manual" on "Parafilaria multipapillosa" in horses
Sojourn may refer to:

Books and periodicals
Sojourn (comics), a CrossGen comic book series
Sojourn (journal), a journal of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia
Sojourn (novel), the 1991 novel in the Dark Elf Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore
The Sojourn, a 2011 novel by Andrew Krivak

Music
Sojourn (album), a 1977 album by Mickey Tucker
"Sojourn", a song by Natasha Bedingfield from Unwritten
Sojourn Music, an American Christian music group

Other uses
"Sojourn" (American Horror Story), a television episode
Sojourn, a predecessor of TorilMUD, a text-based online role-playing game
Sevoflurane, trade name Sojourn, an inhalational anaesthetic
Sojourn Shelton (born 1994), American football player

See also
Sojourner (disambiguation)