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This study aims to compare morphological and genetic variation of <jats:italic>W. bancrofti<\/jats:italic> microfilariae recovered from carriers in Lao PDR, Myanmar and Thailand. Six morphological parameters (body length, cephalic space length and width, length of head to nerve ring, body width at nerve ring, Innenk\u020drper length and number of column nuclei between the cephalic space and nerve ring) were evaluated from microfilariae in Giemsa-stained thick blood films. A portion of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene of mitochondrial DNA was sequenced and analysed. <jats:italic>Wuchereria bancrofti<\/jats:italic> microfilariae showed a wide variation in their morphology and morphometry among three countries. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that all microfilariae belonged to <jats:italic>W. bancrofti<\/jats:italic>. Higher mutation frequencies were observed in samples from Myanmar, relative to Thailand and Lao PDR. 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