Onchocerca ochengi
Very common in Northern Cameroon, wherever its vector, Simulium damnosum s.l., prevails
Onchocerca ochengi nodules in the ventral skin of cattle, nodulectomy, female and males worms isolated by collagenase digestion, microchip implanted to mark the site of a nodule (A. Renz)
Literature:
Renz, A. (2001): Onchocerciasis, bovine. In: The Encyclopaedia of Arthropod-transmitted infections, M.W. Service ed. CABI Publishing (578 pg). 375-381.
Wahl, G., MD. Achukwi, D. Mba, O. Dawa & A. Renz (1994): Bovine onchocercosis in North-Cameroon. Veterinary Parasitology 52, 297-311.
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