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Assessment of more than 30,000 black flies for <jats:italic>Onchocerca volvulus<\/jats:italic> infectious stage L3 larvae by using an O-150 polymerase chain reaction protocol showed that black fly infectivity rates were 0.84 (95% confidence interval = 0.0497\u20131.88) per 10,000 flies for Abu Hamed and 6.9 (95% confidence interval = 1.1\u201316.4) infective flies per 10,000 for Galabat. These results provide entomologic evidence for suppressed <jats:italic>Onchocerca volvulus<\/jats:italic> transmission in the Abu Hamed focus and a moderate transmission rate of the parasite in the Galabat focus.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.2011.11-0009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,5,3]],"date-time":"2011-05-03T18:53:58Z","timestamp":1304448838000},"page":"753-756","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Polymerase Chain Reaction Pool Screening Used To Compare Prevalence of Infective Black Flies in Two Onchocerciasis Foci in Northern Sudan"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"84","author":[{"given":"Tarig B.","family":"Higazi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Isam M. 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