Martin Eichner
, Alfons
Renz
, 1990
Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
41: 29-32
Institute of Tropical
Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany
Infective larvae from the savanna strain of
Onchocerca volvulus
are significantly longer (662.6 ± 66.8 µm; n = 99) than those
from the forest strain (624.2 ± 62.0 µm; n = 236). The length
of the infective larvae is not influenced by the size, species or age post
infectionem (pi) of the
Simulium damnosum s. l.
vectors nor by the
localization in the fly's head, thorax or abdomen, the worm load per fly
or the thoracic volume per larva. However, the lengths of infective larvae
within one individual fly have a conspiciously low variance.