| Entry | T02664 |
| Org code | loa |
| Name | Loa loa (eye worm) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 7209 |
| Lineage | Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Rhabditida; Spirurina; Spiruromorpha; Filarioidea; Onchocercidae; Loa |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: animals [BR:br08612] |
| Data source | RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000183805.2 Scaffold)
BioProject: 60051 |
| Original DB | Broad |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Disease | H01104 Loiasis
H02028 Filariasis |
| Comment | African eyeworm.
Major filarial pathogen of humans.
Not contain the obligate intracellular Wolbachia endosymbiont.
Purified during a therapeutic apheresis from a patient with loiasis infected in Cameroon.
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| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 14915
Number of RNA genes: 37
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| Created | 2013 |
| Reference | PMID: 23525074 |
| Authors | Desjardins CA, Cerqueira GC, Goldberg JM, Dunning Hotopp JC, Haas BJ, Zucker J, Ribeiro JM, Saif S, Levin JZ, Fan L, et al. |
| Title | Genomics of Loa loa, a Wolbachia-free filarial parasite of humans. |
| Journal | Nat Genet 45:495-500 (2013)
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2585 |
| Reference | PMID: 22530989 |
| Authors | McNulty SN, Mullin AS, Vaughan JA, Tkach VV, Weil GJ, Fischer PU |
| Title | Comparing the mitochondrial genomes of Wolbachia-dependent and independent filarial nematode species. |
| Journal | BMC Genomics 13:145 (2012)
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-145 |
Loa loa (eye worm)