| molecular identification of infective larvae of three species of onchocerca found in wild-caught females of simulium bidentatum in japan. | wild female black flies attracted to a man or an idling automobile were collected at oita, japan where five cases of zoonotic onchocerciasis had occurred. among the five simulium species captured, 2% of simulium bidentatum, the predominant species, were infected with filarial larvae. there were at least two types of infective larvae, types a and b, based on morphometric observation. moreover, molecular analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (co1) gene revealed that types a ... | 2010 | 20387737 |
| onchocerca takaokai n. sp. (nematoda: filarioidea) in japanese wild boars (sus scrofa leucomystax): description and molecular identification of intradermal females. | human zoonotic onchocercosis is caused by onchocerca dewittei japonica, parasitic in wild boars (sus scrofa leucomystax) in japan. previously, microfilariae longer than those of onchocerca dewittei japonica were observed in skin snips from wild boars during the study of o. dewittei japonica. moreover, the third-stage larvae (l3) of these longer microfilariae were obtained from the blackfly simulium bidentatum after experimental injections. based on morphometric and molecular studies, similar l3 ... | 2015 | 26165205 |
| blackfly vectors of zoonotic onchocerciasis in japan. | studies of blackfly vectors of onchocerca dewittei japonica uni, bain & takaoka (spirurida: onchocercidae), a parasite of wild boar implicated in the aetiology of zoonotic onchocerciasis in japan, and six other zoonotic onchocerca species of this country are reviewed. molecular identification of infective larvae found in wild-caught female blackflies showed that simulium bidentatum (shiraki) (diptera: simuliidae) is a natural vector of o. dewittei japonica, and also onchocerca sp. sensu fukuda e ... | 2012 | 22827756 |