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Peripheral blood showed anemia and leukocytosis with neutrophilia. Other serological tests, radiological examination, and aspiration cytology from the lymph node were inconclusive. The bone marrow aspirate smears incidentally displayed microfilaria, and the inguinal lymph node demonstrated an adult filaria worm. The association of microfilaria infection with pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) and peripheral blood neutrophilia has been rarely reported in the literature. 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