| onchocerca dewittei japonica n. subsp., a common parasite from wild boar in kyushu island, japan. | we describe onchocerca dewittei japonica n. subsp. from the japanese wild boar, sus scrofa leucomystax, in oita, kyushu island, where all seven animals examined were found to be infected. this study began with efforts to identify the causative species in a recent case of zoonotic onchocerciasis. compared with onchocerca dewittei dewittei from sus scrofa jubatus in malaysia, which was reexamined here, our new subspecies has much greater space between the ridges on the females. in addition, its mi ... | 2001 | 11584751 |
| 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 |