Mouchet J, Teppaz M
ORSTOM, Paris.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 1993;86(2):125-8.
Close relationships between American and African strains (from savanna) of onchocerciasis have been confirmed by biochemical analysis. It is admitted that the parasite could have been introduced by slave trade. But in Mexico, Torroela supported the hypothesis that onchocerciasis was introduced by Nubian soldiers of the French troops between 1861 and 1867. Some of the 600 soldiers of the Egyptian bataillon, included in the French expeditionnary corps, could have been onchocerciasis carriers. But these troops caserned in Vera Cruz remained in the littoral plain and have not been in contact with the Oxoaca focus of onchocerciasis. It is very unlikely that they can have been at the origin of the disease focus.
盘尾丝虫病的美洲毒株和非洲毒株（来自稀树草原）之间的密切关系已通过生化分析得到证实。人们认为这种寄生虫可能是通过奴隶贸易传入的。但在墨西哥，托罗埃拉支持这样一种假说，即盘尾丝虫病是1861年至1867年间法国军队中的努比亚士兵传入的。法国远征军中有一个埃及营的600名士兵，其中一些人可能是盘尾丝虫病携带者。但这些驻扎在韦拉克鲁斯的部队一直留在沿海平原，并未接触到瓦哈卡盘尾丝虫病疫源地。它们极不可能是该病疫源地的源头。
