Tracking the vector of Onchocerca lupi in a rural area of Greece.
During a hot Mediterranean summer, an expedition brought parasitologists from Brazil, France, Greece, Italy, and Serbia to a wooded area near Xanthi, Thrace, northeastern Greece, near the Turkish border, on the track of the vector of the little-known nematode Onchocerca lupi. The scientific purposes of the expedition blended then with stories of humans, animals, and parasites in this rural area.
Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica e Zootecnia, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Bari, Valenzano, Italy. d.otranto@veterinaria.uniba.it
Domenico
D
Otranto
Filipe
F
Dantas-Torres
Elias
E
Papadopoulos
Dušan
D
Petrić
Aleksandra Ignjatović
AI
Ćupina
Odile
O
Bain
D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000635:transmission*; D004285:Dogs; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D009854:Onchocerca / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015827:Onchocerciasis, Ocular / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D012424:Rural Population; D012843:Simuliidae / Q000469:parasitology