[Experimental transmission of Monanema nilotica El Bihari & coll., 1977, a filaria with skin-dwelling microfilaria parasitic in African murids].

The value of Monanema of murids as experimental models of ocular lesions due to onchocerciasis would be greatly increased if we could experiment with several host and parasite species since, in many cases, the lesions induced are more significant when the host-parasite association is poorly adapted. The life cycle of 2 isolates of Monanema nilotica is completed, one from Lemniscomys striatus from the Central african Republique and the other from Arvicanthis niloticus of Mali. As in M. globulosa, infective larvae develop in Ixodidae (Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Hyalomma truncatum); 20 to 30 larvae inoculated into the murids suffice for a patent infection.