| diagnosis of a malayan filariasis case using a shotgun diagnostic metagenomics assay. | malayan filariasis is a lymphatic filariasis caused by brugia malayi. it is easily misdiagnosed in non-endemic areas for atypical symptoms and rare diagnostic experience. a 34-year-old chinese woman in new york presented with diffuse erythema on her body, swelling of her body, and watery, itchy, red, sore, swollen and stinging of the eyes, and severe night-time itching. no hospital that the patient visited could make a definite diagnosis by conventional diagnostic methods. it is therefore necess ... | 2016 | 26879053 |