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Pharmacological Management of Severe Neuropathic Pain in a Case of Eosinophilic Meningitis Related to Angiostrongylus cantonensis

open access: yesCase Reports in Anesthesiology, 2018
Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the most common infectious cause of eosinophilic meningitis and can be fatal. The parasite can be found throughout Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands and the global distribution is expanding.
Jennifer Busse   +4 more
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Meningoencefalitis Eosinofílica Eosinophilic Meningoencephalitis

open access: yesRevista Médica Electrónica, 2009
El Angiostrongylus cantonensis es la causa infecciosa más frecuente de meningoencefalitis eosinofílica en el niño en nuestro medio. El huésped definitivo de este nemátodo es la rata y los humanos se infectan por la ingestión de larvas en tercer estadio ...
Maritza Fariñas González   +4 more
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Inhibiting Interleukin 17 Can Ameliorate the Demyelination Caused by A. cantonensis via iNOS Inhibition

open access: yesMediators of Inflammation, 2017
Angiostrongylus cantonensis (A. cantonensis) is an important food-borne parasitic disease. Previous study showed that A. cantonensis infection can cause demyelination in the central nerve system, but the mechanism of action has not been understood.
Feng Ying   +6 more
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Reproductive biology of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Metastrongyloidea: Angiostrongylidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
Twenty rats (Rattus norvegicus) received infective inocula of 5, 10, 20, and 40 third-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The effects of varying doses of larvae on prepatent period larval production, worm establishment, worm size, and fertility ...
Harris, Grace Spatafora
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Older urban rats are infected with the zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis

open access: yesCurrent Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
Rats, being synanthropic, are hosts to agents of zoonotic diseases that pose a threat to human and domestic animal health. The nematode parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm, is no exception; it can cause potentially ...
Phoebe Rivory   +3 more
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Strongylides in Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica (Mollusca, Achatinidae) in Havana, Cuba

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Investigaciones Biomédicas, 2019
Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica was introduced in Cuba in 2014 for african religious purposes and nowadays, mainly by human activity, it is widespread all over the country and, where besides a general nuisance for people it is a pest and also a public ...
José Alejandro Rodríguez Pérez   +8 more
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Low susceptibility of Achatina fulica from Brazil to infection with Angiostrongylus costaricensis and A. cantonensis [PDF]

open access: diamond, 2007
Erli Neuhauss   +3 more
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