Onchocerca volvulus 1 20.jpg

Taxonomy: s.f. Filarioidea
Animal: Onchocerca volvulus 1 20.jpg
Sites: Skin
Comment:
Onchocerca volvulus adults in a digested nodule adult female 33.5 - 50 cm x 270 - 400 microns and males 19 - 42 cm x 130 - 210 microns. Causes river blindness. Widely distrubuted throughout Central Africa and Central and South America; vector is a black fly, Simulium sp.

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