Malaria : Anopheles :: Filariasis :___

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Culex

Filariasis is a parasitic infection caused due to the biting of a culex mosquito. Wuchereria bancrofti, a human parasitic round worm enters in the human blood via the mosquito bite and causes elephantiasis (Filariasis is also known as Elephantiasis).

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