An Onchocerca Species from Cattle on Kyushu Island is O. suzukii, a Transfuge Parasite from the Japanese Endemic Bovid, Capricornis crispus

Autor:	Odile Bain, Hideyuki Chiba, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Shigehiko Uni, Akira Katsumi, Yoshitaka Suzuki
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Infective stage Veterinary medicine biology Onchocerca sp Skin snips medicine Parasite hosting Filarioidea biology.organism_classification Onchocerciasis medicine.disease Onchocerca species
Zdroj:	Japanese Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 26:157-160
ISSN:	2186-1811 0304-2146
DOI:	10.2149/tmh1973.26.157
Popis:	In 1988-1989, microfilariae of an unidentified Onchocerca species were found in the skin of eight of the 16 cattle aged at least 5 years that were examined in Oita, Kyushu, Japan. Adult worms were not found in cattle, but the microfilariae taken from skin snips, which have coiled posterior parts, were grown to the infective stage in simuliid. In 1997, both adults and microfilariae of 0. suzukii were recovered from Japanese serows (Capricornis crispus) in Yamagata, Honshu. Such microfilariae from serows, reported here for the first time, had coiled posterior parts and measurements {130-160 (mean, 140) pm long and 4-6 (5) μm wide} close to those from cattle. The findings showed that the Onchocerca sp. in cattle in Kyushu is O. suzukii, a transfuge parasite from the Japanese endemic bovid, C. crispus.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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