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Onchocerca volvulus

The human-parasitic filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus.
Filarial nematodes are tissue and gut parasites of a wide range of vertebrates, including humans. This species causes human river blindness, affecting over 100 million people. See NEMBASE4 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes.

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