Figure 1.

(a-b) Unstained fine-needle aspiration smears showing a fragment of gravid female adult worm with numerous microfilariae entangled with each other; (c) Fine-needle aspiration smear showing numerous microfilariae (H and E; ×20); d, Smear showing scattered embryoid forms of the parasite (H and E; ×10); (e) Smear showing the larva form of the parasite in an inflammatory background (H and E; ×20); (f) Smear showing ensheathed microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti with somatic nuclei in the center, not extending into the cephalic and the tail ends (MGG; ×40)