Determination of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus Prevalence and Risk Factors in Cats from Balıkesir [PDF]
Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi, 2023 Objective:The lungworms are nematodes that live as parasites in cat lungs. It is reported that the most common lungworm is Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in cats, and also Capillaria aerophila is observed.
İlayda Yıldırım +4 more
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Reaction of Cornu aspersum Immune System against Different Aelurostrongylus abstrusus Developmental Stages [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 Cornu aspersum, the land snail, is recognized as a suitable intermediate host of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; however, there is little information both on larval development as well as on the intermediate host’s immune system reaction to the parasite. The
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Evaluation of Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Findings in Cats With Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in Comparison to Cats With Feline Bronchial Disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019 The cat lungworm Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is a cause of lower respiratory tract disease worldwide. Bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) are important tools for diagnosing respiratory diseases in cats.
Paolo E. Crisi +10 more
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Detection of Crenosoma spp., Angiostrongylus vasorum and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in Gastropods in Eastern Austria [PDF]
Pathogens, 2020 Canine and feline cardiorespiratory parasites are of utmost relevance in veterinary medicine. Key epizootiological information on major pet metastrongyloids, i.e., Angiostrongylus vasorum and Crenosoma vulpis infecting dogs, and Aelurostrongylus ...
Hans-Peter Fuehrer +21 more
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Stray Cat Colonies Lacking Health Surveillance and Management Pose Infection Pressure for Aelurostrongylus abstrusus on Sympatric Domestic and Wild Felids [PDF]
AnimalsThe prevalence of respiratory nematodes in domestic animals has increased in Europe in recent decades. Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is the most common parasitic nematode of the respiratory tract in felids, and an increase in its prevalence has been ...
Diana Gassó +2 more
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Pathogistological changes in the lungs of Felis silvestris catus when infected with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus [PDF]
Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Ґжицького: Серія Ветеринарні науки, 2020 Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is a parasite that belongs to Nematoda type, Metastrongyloidea superfamily, Angiostrongylidae family, Aelurostrongylus genus and is known as feline helminth, whose intermediate hosts are slugs and snails and reservoir hosts are
O. M. Shchebentovska, M. V. Holubtsova
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Detection of Aelurostrongylus spp. Infection in the Neozoan American Mink (Neogale vison) in Southern Chile [PDF]
PathogensBackground: The American mink (Neogale vison) is an invasive mustelid in Chile that serves as a natural reservoir host for several pathogens. Cardiorespiratory nematodes of the superfamily Metastrongyloidea, including Aelurostrongylus spp., have been ...
Joaquín Saavedra +12 more
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Distribution of the feline lungworm in the USA based on fecal testing [PDF]
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2019 Objectives The aim of this study was to compile commercial reference laboratory data over a 10-year period to determine the distribution of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus , commonly known as feline lungworm, within the USA based on widespread fecal testing ...
Ariel J Carruth +4 more
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Diagnosis of verminous pneumonia via sonography-guided fine-needle pulmonary parenchymal aspiration in a cat [PDF]
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2016 Case summary A 9-year-old, male neutered, indoor–outdoor domestic shorthair cat from the northern Alabama countryside presented for a 3 week history of coughing, lethargy and an episode of self-resolving dyspnea that occurred 1 week prior to presentation.
Jennifer Gambino +3 more
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Investigation of Respiratory Metastrongyloids and Other Endoparasites in Domestic Cats Living in the States of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [PDF]
AnimalsThe metastrongyloids Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior, and the capillariid Capillaria aerophila, are major respiratory nematodes infecting cats. In recent decades these nematodes have been recorded in several areas of the world and
Luciano Antunes Barros +17 more
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