Onchocerca volvulus Symptoms and Causes

The life cycle of the parasite spans two different hosts: black flies and humans. The life cycle is initiated when the parasitized female black fly takes a blood meal from an infected individual and ingests the microfilariae (infective larvae) of the... read more

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