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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Rat Lungworm Detected in Rats, Madagascar, 2022–2023 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is a zoonotic parasite that causes eosinophilic meningitis in humans; the parasite is maintained in rat definitive hosts and transmitted through gastropod intermediate hosts. We report A.
Santatriniaina F. Randrianarisoa, Elise N. Paietta, Rachel A. Johnston, Tahina T. Razanamahenina, Antsa Ramboninarimalala, Toussaint G. Raherinirina, Laurent Raveloson, Nina L. Finley, Eric Baitchman, Arvind Varsani, Fidisoa T. Rasambainarivo   +10 more
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Detection of Rat Lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Rats and Gastropods, Italy [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The emerging zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis causes severe neural angiostrongyliasis in both humans and animals. The parasite has been reported in Spain. We detected A.
Divakaran Pandian, Anna Šipková, Stefano Scarcelli, Giovanni Sgroi, Jana Kačmaříková, Francesco Buono, Elisa Castaldo, Nicola D’Alessio, Barbora Červená, Vincenzo Veneziano, David Modrý   +10 more
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Zoonotic Rat Lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Black Rats, Houston, Texas, 2024 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The Angiostrongylus cantonensis rat lungworm is a zoonotic nematode that infects several rat species. This nematode causes eosinophilic meningitis and meningoencephalitis in humans and other accidental hosts. We found a 20% prevalence of A.
Daniela A. Sierra, Tiana L. Sanders, Erin E. Edwards, Christine M. Molter, Guilherme G. Verocai   +4 more
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Autochthonous Rat Lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infections in Accidental and Definitive Hosts, San Diego, California, USA [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is an emerging veterinary and public health concern. We describe A. cantonensis infections in a zoo-housed parma wallaby and free-ranging Virginia opossums and roof rats in San Diego, California, USA ...
Shotaro Nakagun, Carlo G. Gonzalez Vera, Alexis Wohl, Deana L. Clifford, Garrett A. Fraess, Jordyn R. Nylander, Estefanía Montero, Javier Asin, Steven V. Kubiski, Rachel E. Burns   +9 more
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Successful Management of Angiostrongylus Cantonensis-Induced Eosinophilic Meningitis Using Albendazole–Corticosteroid Therapy: A Case Report With Serial Cytokine and CSF Monitoring [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Angiostrongylus eosinophilic meningitis is aparasitic disease caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The initial report is originated from southern China. However, the incidence rate has decreased due to improvements in sanitary conditions.
Wen-Dong Cong, Min Yu, Si-Man Chen, Peng-Fei Qin, Qing-Mei Huang, Zhan Gao, De-Feng Liu, De-Tian Liu   +7 more
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Insights into the biology of the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a parasitic nematode with a complex life cycle involving rats as definitive hosts and gastropods as intermediate hosts. The parasite can infect other organisms, including humans, in which it causes neuroangiostrongyliasis ...
Chasen D. Griffin, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Robert H. Cowie   +2 more
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Using cerebrospinal fluid to confirm Angiostrongylus cantonensis as the cause of canine neuroangiostrongyliasis in Australia where A. cantonensis and Angiostrongylus mackerrasae co-exist

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2021
Both Angiostrongylus cantonensis and Angiostrongylus mackerrasae have been identified along the east coast of Australia. A lack of A. mackerrasae genomic data until 2019, however, has precluded the unequivocal identification of the Angiostrongylus ...
Jeevitheswara Thammannaya Mallaiyaraj Mahalingam, Nichola Eliza Davies Calvani, Rogan Lee, Richard Malik, Jan Šlapeta   +4 more
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Rapid Single-Step Immunochromatographic Assay for Angiostrongylus cantonensis Specific Antigen Detection

Pathogens, 2023
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the major etiological nematode parasite causing eosinophilic meningitis and/or eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans.
Praphathip Eamsobhana, Anchalee Tungtrongchitr, Darawan Wanachiwanawin, Sudarat Boonyong, Hoi-Sen Yong   +4 more
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The recent introduction of Angiostrongylus cantonensis and its intermediate host Achatina fulica into Guadeloupe detected by phylogenetic analyses

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) is the main pathogen responsible for eosinophilic meningitis in humans. One of its intermediate snail hosts, Achatina fulica, was already present in many countries around the world before it appeared ...
Gelixa Gamiette, Séverine Ferdinand, David Couvin, Céline Dard, Antoine Talarmin   +4 more
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Fatal neural angiostrongyliasis in the Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis) leading to defining Angiostrongylus cantonensis risk map at a zoo in Australia

One Health, 2023
Neural angiostrongyliasis (NA) is a parasitic disease caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm). This study presents a case of NA in a captive Bolivian squirrel monkey from a zoo in western Sydney, Australia.
Phoebe Rivory, Kresen Pillay, Rogan Lee, David Taylor, Michael P. Ward, Jan Šlapeta   +5 more
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