For a long time, wildlife carnivores have been disregarded for their potential in transmitting
zoonotic nematodes. However, human activities and politics (eg, fragmentation of the …

This review summarises more than a century of research on onchocerciasis, also known as
river blindness, and its control. River blindness is an infection caused by the tissue filaria …

Background Wolbachia is an obligate intracellular maternally transmitted, gram-negative
bacterium which forms a spectrum of endosymbiotic relationships from parasitism to …

Current mass drug administration (MDA) programs for the treatment of human river
blindness (onchocerciasis) caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus rely on …

Filarioid nematodes, which are vector-borne parasites of cosmopolitan distribution, of dogs
are medically important. They are represented by species in which microfilariae were found …

The parasitic filarioid Onchocerca lupi causes ocular disease characterized by conjunctivitis
and nodular lesions. This nematode was first described in 1967 in a wolf from Georgia, and …

Accurate taxonomic identifications and species delimitations are a fundamental problem in
biology. The complex taxonomy of Nematoda is primarily based on morphology, which is …

Northern ungulates contend with Setaria yehi and Rumenfilaria andersoni, filarioid
nematodes that are transmitted by ectoparasitic blood-feeding arthropods, which can result …

The genus Onchocerca includes several species associated with ungulates as hosts,
although some have been identified in canids, felids, and humans. Onchocerca species …

Long-standing reports of open sores on the hind legs of moose (Alces alces) have been
recorded in Alaska (as well as Canada, Europe, and Michigan), eliciting concerns about …