Name - Onchocerca volvulus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:11194 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart 1894)

• Onchocerca volvulus (Voelker & Garms 1972)

• Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart 1893)

• Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart)

• Onchocerca volvulus Leuckart

• Onchocerca volvulus (Leuck.)

• Onchocerca volvulus Linst.

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Recent Publications

• Synthesizing environmental, epidemiological and vector and parasite genetic data to assist decision making for disease elimination.
• Short- and Long-Range Dispersal by Members of the Simulium damnosum Complex (Diptera: Simuliidae), Vectors of Onchocerciasis: A Review.
• Spatial and temporal diversity of Simulium damnosum s.l. gut microbiota and association with Onchocerca volvulus infection in Cameroon.
• Improving onchocerciasis elimination surveillance: trials of odour baited Esperanza Window Traps to collect black fly vectors and real-time qPCR detection of Onchocerca volvulus in black fly pools.
• Ongoing transmission of onchocerciasis in the Pru District of Ghana after two decades of mass drug administration with ivermectin and comparative identification of members of the Simulium damnosum complex using cytological and morphological techniques.

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