hook-tail worm (Onchocerca volvulus)

Spanish translation: Gusano enrollado

15:20 Aug 15, 2016
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Botany / entomology
English term or phrase: hook-tail worm (Onchocerca volvulus)
From a patent about pesticides
María Salle (X)
Uruguay
Local time: 03:04
Spanish translation:Gusano enrollado
Explanation:
tomado del Manual de Microbiología y Parasitología Médica. Tomo III
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4Gusano enrollado
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3gusano Onchocerca Volvulus
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hook-tail worm (onchocerca volvulus)
Gusano enrollado


Explanation:
tomado del Manual de Microbiología y Parasitología Médica. Tomo III


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kcabrera74
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hook-tail worm (onchocerca volvulus)
gusano Onchocerca Volvulus


Explanation:
Esta parasitos la produce el gusano Onchcerca Vulvulus y solo en Africa occidental, en ciertas partes de la península Arábiga.....
https://books.google.es/books?id=HHzkW5XcQssC&pg=PT74&lpg=PT...

Onchocerca volvulus es una especie de nemátodo que en un estado adulto habita en el tejido conjuntivo y subcutáneo de la piel. La hembra puede medir hasta 50 cm, mientras que el macho llega a 5 cm; generalmente forman ovillos encapsulado, donde puede haber más de una pareja de parásitos. Las microfilarias no tienen membrana envolvente y las masas nucleares no llegan hasta el extremo superior, su longitud varía entre 150 y 350 micras. Es responsable de la onco-cercosis.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onchocerca_volvulus

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