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Terrestrial Slugs in Neotropical Agroecosystems

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Slugs can be important agricultural pests in tropical regions. They are also intermediate hosts of parasitic nematodes, such as Angiostrongylus costaricensis and A.
Mariangie Ramos, Suzete Rodrigues Gomes, Yashira Gutierrez, Olgaly Ramos-Rodriguez, Mariella Carmadelli Uzeda   +4 more
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Worms, slugs and humans: the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease Vermes, caramujos e humanos: as construções médica e popular de uma doença infecciosa emergente

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2011
The identification of the worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis parasitizing land snails and humans in Southern Brazil suggests under-diagnosis and under-notification of patients with abdominal angiostrongyliasis.
Márcia Grisotti, Fernando Dias de Avila-Pires   +1 more
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Angiostrongylus costaricensis: first record of its occurrence in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil, and a review of its geographic distribution Angiostrongylus costaricensis: primeiro relato de sua ocorrência no estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil, e revisão de sua distribuição geográfica

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1995
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a parasitic disease caused by Angiostrongylus costaricensis, a metastrongylid nematode with wide geographic distribution, occurring from the United States to Argentina.
Gil Patrus M. Pena, José de Souza Andrade Filho, Samuel Curvelo de Assis   +2 more
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Right Testicular Artery Occlusion and Acute Appendicitis by Angiostrongylus costaricensis

Case Reports in Surgery, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Introduction. Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a nematode from the superfamily Metastrongyloidea, whose etymology is “roundworm that lives in blood vessels”. This parasite can be found from the southern United States to northern Argentina and southern Brazil.
Luis Enrique Sánchez-Sierra, Roberto Antonio Martínez-Quiroz, Héctor S. Antúnez, Humberto Cabrera-Interiano, Fernando Josué Barrientos-Melara, Tahsin Colak   +5 more
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Abdominal angiostrongyliasis: a case with severe evolution Angiostrongilíase abdominal: um caso com grave evolução

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2005
A case of acute abdomen disease caused by abdominal angiostrongyliasis is reported. A 42-year-old otherwise healthy patient presented with a complaint of nine days of abdominal pain, constipation, disury, fever and right iliac fossa palpable mass ...
José Wellington Alves dos Santos, Ricardo Morgental Zambenedetti, Keli Cristina Mann, Marta Pires da Rocha, Ewerton Nunes Morais, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira   +5 more
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Interface Molecules of Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Their Role in Parasite Survival and Modulation of Host Defenses

International Journal of Inflammation, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode parasite that causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. Disease presents following the ingestion of third‐stage larvae residing in the intermediate mollusk host and disease manifests as an acute inflammation of the meninges characterized by eosinophil infiltrates which release a battery of ...
Alessandra L. Morassutti, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth   +2 more
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Angiostrongylus costaricensis infection in Martinique, Lesser Antilles, from 2000 to 2017

Parasite, 2018
Human abdominal angiostrongyliasis (HAA) is a parasitic disease caused by the accidental ingestion of the nematode Angiostrongylus costaricensis in its larval form.
Dard Céline, Nguyen Duc, Miossec Charline, de Meuron Katia, Harrois Dorothée, Epelboin Loïc, Cabié André, Desbois-Nogard Nicole   +7 more
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Activity profiling of peptidases in Angiostrongylus costaricensis first-stage larvae and adult worms. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
BACKGROUND:Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a relatively uncharacterized nematode that causes abdominal angiostrongyliasis in Latin America, a human parasitic disease.
Karina M Rebello, James H McKerrow, Ester M Mota, Anthony J O Donoghue, Ana Gisele C Neves-Ferreira   +4 more
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First report of the nematode Cruzia tentaculata using molluscs as natural intermediate hosts, based on morphology and genetic markers

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2021
The life cycles of many parasitic nematodes include terrestrial gastropods as intermediate hosts. Over the past few decades, a number of cases of parasitism between molluscs and medically-important nematodes have been reported in Brazil, in particular ...
Jucicleide Ramos-de-Souza, Arnaldo Maldonado-Jr, Roberto V. Vilela, Beatriz E. Andrade-Silva, Helene S. Barbosa, Suzete R. Gomes, Silvana C. Thiengo   +6 more
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Non-specific abdominal pain and air pollution: a novel association. [PDF]

, 2012
We studied whether short-term exposure to air pollution was associated with non-specific abdominal pain in epidemiologic and animal studies. Patients visiting the emergency department with non-specific abdominal pain were identified in Edmonton (1992 to
Kaplan, Gilaad G., Renaud Vincent (84699), Jakub Fichna (124406), Madsen, Karen, Gilaad G Kaplan, Vincent, Renaud, Porada, Eugeniusz, Martin Storr (124415), Szyszkowicz, Mieczyslaw, Mieczyslaw Szyszkowicz (124403), Eugeniusz Porada, Karen Madsen, Gilaad G. Kaplan (124401), Rowe, Brian H., Ghosh, Subrata, Storr, Martin, Jakub Fichna, Mieczyslaw Szyszkowicz, Subrata Ghosh (124413), Subrata Ghosh, Fichna, Jakub, Eugeniusz Porada (124410), Martin Storr, Brian H. Rowe (124408), Renaud Vincent, Karen Madsen (124411), Brian H Rowe   +26 more
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