Wahl G
Institut für Tropenmedizin, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany.
J Parasitol. 1996 Jun;82(3):520-4.
Filarial larvae resembling Type D (Duke, 1967), which are common in the Simulium damnosum s.i. vectors of human onchocerciasis ("riverblindness") in several parts of West Africa, were dissected from wild-caught flies in north Cameroon and examined morphologically. This was done in order to establish a possible synonymy with infective larvae (L3) of 2 recently discovered Onchocerca species of wart hogs (Onchocerca ramachandrini Bain, Wahl, and Renz, 1993 and Onchocerca sp. Wahl and Bain, 1995), which had been found to resemble Type D. After dissection of approximately 1,700 S. damnosum s.1., 13 Type D-like larvae were recovered from 12 infected flies. Their morphology corresponded to O. ramachandrini.
从喀麦隆北部野生捕获的苍蝇中解剖出类似D型（杜克，1967年）的丝虫幼虫，这种幼虫在西非几个地区传播人类盘尾丝虫病（“河盲症”）的蚋属（指名亚种）媒介中很常见，并对其进行了形态学检查。这样做是为了确定它与最近发现的2种疣猪盘尾丝虫（Onchocerca ramachandrini Bain、瓦尔和伦茨，1993年；Onchocerca sp.瓦尔和贝恩，1995年）的感染性幼虫（L3）是否可能为同物异名，此前已发现这两种幼虫与D型相似。解剖了大约1700只蚋属指名亚种后，从12只受感染的苍蝇中发现了13只类似D型的幼虫。它们的形态与ramachandrini盘尾丝虫一致。
