Onchocerca

Onchocerca
Onchocerca
Adult Black Fly with Onchocerca volvulus emerging from the insect's antenna.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Spirurida
Family: Onchocercidae
Genus: Onchocerca

Onchocerca is a genus of roundworm. It contains one human parasite - Onchocerca volvulus - which is responsible for the neglected disease Onchocerciasis, also known as "River Blindness" because the infected humans tend to live near rivers where host black flies live. Over 40 million people are infected in Africa, Central America, and South America.[1]

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List of species

Life cycle of Onchocerca volvulus
  • Onchocerca armillata
  • Onchocerca cervicalis
  • Onchocerca dukei
  • Onchocerca fasciata
  • Onchocerca flexuosa
  • Onchocerca gibsoni
  • Onchocerca gutturosa
  • Onchocerca jakutensis
  • Onchocerca linealis
  • Onchocerca lupi
  • Onchocerca ochengi
  • Onchocerca ramachandrini
  • Onchocerca sp. 'bushbuck'
  • Onchocerca sp. 'Siisa
  • Onchocerca tubingensis
  • Onchocerca volvulus

Notes

  1. ^ "Medical Microbiology", Indiana State University. Accessed 14 February 2008.

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