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Oncocerciasis is a disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus, transmitted by several species of simulium ("Black flies") and manifested by onchodermatitis. Mature worms and microfilariae are found in granulomatous dermal nodules mainly on the bony prominences, the trunks and extremities in Africans and the scalp in Central Americans. ................
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