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Recent data collected in Northern Uganda revealed a striking discordance between estimates of the prevalence of flies carrying <jats:italic>O. volvulus<\/jats:italic> infective larvae obtained from molecular pool screening and dissection methods. To resolve this discrepancy, sequences from three mitochondrially encoded genes were analyzed from the larvae collected by dissection. All larvae analyzed were <jats:italic>Onchocerca ochengi<\/jats:italic> v. Siisa, a parasite of cattle, or <jats:italic>Onchocerca ramachandrini<\/jats:italic>, a parasite of warthogs. 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