Onchocerca in an Alaskan Moose

Name: Onchocerca in an Alaskan Moose
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descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Aug 1958Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:Journal of Mammalogy, volume 39, page 449 (issn: 0022-2372,

Authors: Bert B. Babero; Ralph B. Williams;

doi: 10.2307/1376172

Onchocerca in an Alaskan Moose

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Species of the genus Onchocerca Diesing, 1841, have been reported from numerous ruminants, including cattle, deer, antelope, horses, elk, buffalo, and camels (Yorke and Maplestone, The Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates, 536 pp., 1926). Recently, Rayanyachari and Alwar (India Vet. Jour., 29: 329,1953) recovered Onchocerca sp. from a pig ( Sus scrofa domestica ). The distribution of the parasite group in ruminants is nearly world-wide, having been recorded from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas (Stiles and Hassal, Index Cat. Med. Vet Zool., 114: 886 pp., 1927). Numerous female nematodes of Onchocerca were collected from flexor tendons and subcutaneous tissues of the hind legs …

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