| mermithid parasitism of simulium damnosum s.l. and the transmission of human onchocerciasis. | dissection data from a simulium damnosum s.l. population in northern ghana, heavily parasitized by the mermithid isomermis lairdi, are presented. a simple calculation gives reason to suppose that this parasitism may significantly reduce the transmission of onchocerciasis at certain seasons. | 1985 | 3832494 |
| construction and characterisation of a bac library made from field specimens of the onchocerciasis vector simulium squamosum (diptera: simuliidae). | a bacterial artificial chromosome (bac) library was made from wild-caught simulium squamosum, which is an important vector of human onchocerciasis. the library is composed of 12,288 bacs, with an average insert size of 128 kb, and is expected to contain ~1.54 gb of cloned dna. random bac-end sequencing generated over 95 kb of dna sequence data from which putative s. squamosum gene sequences and novel repetitive dna families were identified, including dna transposons, retrotransposons and simple ... | 2010 | 20603211 |
| an 18s ribosomal dna barcode for the study of isomermis lairdi, a parasite of the blackfly simulium damnosum s.l. | the mermithid parasite, isomermis lairdi mondet, poinar & bernadou (nematoda: mermithidae), is known to have a major impact on populations of simulium damnosum s.l. theobald (diptera: simuliidae) and on their efficiency as vectors of onchocerca volvulus (leuckart) (nematoda: filarioidea). however, the value of i. lairdi and other mermithid parasites as potential means of integrated vector control has not been fully realized. this is partly because traditional taxonomic approaches have been insuf ... | 2009 | 19712154 |