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Is the disease elephantiasis caused by an eubacterium, roundworm, or virus?
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Roundworm: Wucharia bancrofti is a typical cause of elephantiasis but in the us chronic lymph edema from venous disease which can look like elephantiasis is much more common.
Answered 9/3/2012
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