| absence of ornithodoros moubata, the vector of african swine fever virus, from the main pig producing area of cameroon. | no evidence for the presence of soft ticks of the ornithodoros moubata complex was found during a survey of african swine fever carried out between 1985 and 1988 in the west province and southern parts of the north west and south west provinces of cameroon. the survey consisted of interviews of veterinary assistants and farmers, distribution of a questionnaire and tick searches both manually and with carbon dioxide traps. the absence of warthogs (phacochoerus aethiopicus) from these areas was al ... | 1990 | 2371751 |
| development by injection in simulium damnosum s.l. of two onchocerca species from the wart hog to infective larvae resembling type d larvae (duke, 1967). | four wart hogs (phacochoerus aethiopicus) examined in the sudan savanna of north-cameroon were all found infected with two types of skin microfilariae. one was o. ramachandrini bain, wahl and renz, 1993, the adult worms of which live in the subcutaneous tissues of the feet. the other, smaller type belongs to a new onchocerca species, the adult worms of which were not yet found. o. ramachandrini-microfilariae were evenly distributed across the whole body surface, those of onchocerca sp. were conc ... | 1995 | 9137644 |