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WHEN one of us (D. J. L.) was working with the Venezuelan Ministry of Health as a World Health Organization consultant he found encysted digenetic-trematode metacercariæ in Simulium exiguum Roubaud, which is a common man-biting fly and may be a secondary vector of human onchocerciasis. Trematodes have been found in many insects1, but not in Simuliidae so far as we know.
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LEWIS, D., WRIGHT, C. A Trematode Parasite of Simulium. Nature 193, 1311–1312 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931311a0
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