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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Nematoda > Chromadorea > Spirurida > Filarioidea > Onchocerca > Onchocerca volvulus

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Onchocerca volvulus  

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Note

  • infection: coord IM with ONCHOCERCIASIS (IM); coord with specific helminth term (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc) if pertinent; /drug eff: consider FILARICIDES

Scope note

  • A species of parasitic nematodes widely distributed throughout central Africa and also found in northern South America, southern Mexico, and Guatemala. Its intermediate host and vector is the blackfly or buffalo gnat.

History note

  • 93

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017181

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