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Angiostrongylosis in Animals and Humans in Europe
Pathogens, 2021 Lungworms in the genus Angiostrongylus cause disease in animals and humans. The spread of Angiostrongylus vasorum within Europe and the recent establishment of Angiostrongylus cantonensis increase the relevance of these species to veterinary and medical ...
Eric R. Morgan +4 more
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The prevalence of Angiostrongylus cantonensis/mackerrasae complex in molluscs from the Sydney region [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Chan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Aghazadeh, M +11 more
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis eosinophilic meningitis [PDF]
, 1999 In the past 50 years, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis, has spread from Southeast Asia to the South Pacific, Africa, India, the Caribbean, and recently, to Australia and North America, mainly carried by cargo ...
Pien, Brian C., Pien, Francis D.
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Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Angiostrongylus cantonensis has caused sporadic cases of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in Sydney, Australia. We describe a 36‐year‐old man who presented subacutely with fevers, reduced level of consciousness, confusion, ophthalmoplegia, and urinary incontinence.
Fabian Chiong +3 more
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First Reported Outbreak of Abdominal Angiostrongyliasis [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1998 Human abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a potentially fatal disease caused by Angiostrongylus costaricensis, a nematode found in the Americas. During the period of December 1994 through August 1995, an outbreak of this disease occurred in Guatemala. We identified 22 cases of abdominal angiostrongyliasis and conducted a matched case-control study to ...
Michael H. Kramer +10 more
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Preliminary expression profile of cytokines in brain tissue of BALB/c mice with Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Angiostrongylus cantonensis (A. cantonensis) infection can result in increased risk of eosinophilic meningitis. Accumulation of eosinophils and inflammation can result in the A.
Jie Wei +9 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 +5 more
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Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 543-552, March/April 2016., 2016 Background Noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH) primarily relies upon Doppler echocardiography of tricuspid regurgitation (TR). However, TR might be absent or difficult to measure. Hypothesis/Objectives To determine the diagnostic value of right pulmonary artery distensibility (RPAD) index for prediction of Doppler‐derived estimates of ...
L.C. Visser +3 more
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Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis contributes to the immunosuppression of mice infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis [PDF]
, 2016 PCR primers used in this study.
Ai-ling Chen +7 more
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BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection may cause elevation of ROS and antioxidants in the CSF of infected mice. Astrocytes may protect the surrounding neurons from oxidative stress‐induced cell death by secreting Sonic hedgehog (Shh) via the PI3‐K/AKT/Bcl‐2 pathway.
Kuang-Yao Chen +3 more
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