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The article presents a study on the prevalence of Onchocerca lupi in the eyes resulting to ocular filariasis. The study discusses two cases of ocular filariasis such as one involving a 26-year-old male from Turkey and another eight-year-old child from Tunisia. It performed various methods including histological examinations, light microscopy and mitochondrial cytochrome amplification. Results show that the first case involved O. lupi according to the morphology at various tests, while findings for the second case coincides with O. lupi. It concludes that O. lupi infestation is not a rare finding, but should be a concern in the differential diagnosis of zoonotic helminths.

In Tunisia, four major aphid species have been identified based on adult female's morphological characters:Aphis gossypiiGlover,Aphis craccivoraKoch,Myzus persicaeSluzer andMacrosiphum euphorbiaeThomas. Species identification at individual collection sites is often difficult because adults are much fewer in number than larvae which are not so easy to distinguish morphologically. We therefore set up an experiment to determine if cuticular hydrocarbon phenotypes and mitochondrial DNA haplotypes could be used to distinguish such sympatric species. Results showed that each species had an unique cuticular hydrocarbon phenotype and mitochondrial cytochromebsequence. Cytochromebrestriction fragment-length polymorphism markers, especiallyDdeI, identified in this sudy constitute a relatively simple and useful approach to distinguish the four species even at the nymphal stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]