Onchocerca tubingensis

Onchocerca tubingensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Secernentea
Order:	Spirurida
Family:	Onchocercidae
Genus:	Onchocerca
Species:	O. tubingensis
Binomial name
Onchocerca tubingensis Bain & Schulz-Key, 1974

Red deer are the host of Onchocerca tubingensis

Onchocerca tubingensis is the name of a nematode.^[1] It was 1974 discovered and published by O. Bain und H. Schulz-Key in Tropenmedizin und Parasitologie and named after Tübingen.^[2] Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are the host of this parasite.^[3] The adult worms of Onchocerca tubingensis are found in subcutaneous nodules on the caudal part of the back, while the microfilariae are distributed on the ventral part of the body with maximum densities in the region of the sternum and with lower densities on the inner sides of the hindlegs. The infection rates of 94 red deer investigated in southern Germany during 1907–1974 were 23%.^[4]

References

1. ^ The Free Dictionary
2. ^ H Schulz-Key, O Bain: A fourth species of Onchocerca, O. garmsi n.sp. from the European deer (author's transl)
3. ^ Tropenmed. Parasitol. 1976 Dec; 27(4): 474-478: Description of Onchocerca garmsi n.sp. in the connective subcutaneous tissue of Cervus elaphus; furhter information on the description of Onchocerca tubingensis Bain and Schulz-Key, 1974, in subcutaneous nodules of the same host.
4. ^ H. Schulz-Key: Studies on the Filariidae of Cervidae in southern Germany. 2. Filariidae of the red deer (Cervus elaphus). Tropenmed Parasitol. 1975 September; 26(3): pages 348-58, Article in German.