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Lung CT findings of angiostrongyliasis cantonensis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Clinical Imaging, 2011
Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis is a parasitic disease caused by human infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Fifteen cases were enrolled in our study. Chest CT scanning was performed with MSCT in all cases. The chest CT images demonstrated that pulmonary nodular lesions and ground-glass opacity lesions located in the subpleural area are the ...
Yun Cui
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First Record of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Cuba

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1981
The occurrence of human eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in several localities of Havana, Cuba, prompted a search for the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, in the same localities. Twenty rats (Rattus norvegicus) and about 370 terrestrial mollusks (70 slugs, Veronicella cubensis, and about 300 snails, mostly Bradybaena similaris) were collected
P H, Aguiar, P, Morera, J, Pascual
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The spliced leader gene of Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 1991
A 5' leader sequence has been identified on mRNAs of the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis. A 720-bp XhoI restriction fragment containing the gene encoding the leader sequence has been cloned and sequenced. It contains a 22-nt sequence identical to that of the leader sequence of Caenorhabditis elegans, a consensus splice site and a ...
G W, Joshua, R Y, Chuang, S C, Cheng, S F, Lin, R S, Tuan, C C, Wang   +5 more
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis in China

2013
Angiostrongylus cantonensis was first discovered in 1934 by Professor Chen Xintao and has become an important emerging pathogen causing human angiostrongyliasis. Rats are permissive host, and mice and human are non-permissive host. The adult worms live in the right ventricle and pulmonary arteries of rats. However, worms can’t develop to adult worm and
Jie Wei, Zhongdao Wu
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Characterization of Thymidylate Synthetase

Experimental Parasitology, 1994
Thymidylate synthetase (TS) is the only enzyme that catalyzes the formation of thymidine nucleotides in Angiostrongylus cantonensis. A fraction enriched in TS was obtained from the gravid nematode by gel filtration and affinity chromatography using methotrexate-agarose. TS, which was well separated from dihydrofolate reductase, has a relative molecular
So, NN, Wong, PCL, Ko, RCC
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The role of eosinophils in Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection

Parasitology Today, 1994
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the causative agent of human eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia. Prominent eosinophilia in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the patients has been used as one of the diagnostic criteria for the disease but the role(s) of the CSF eosinophils has remained to be elucidated.
K, Yoshimura, H, Sugaya, K, Ishida
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Necrotizing Retinitis Induced by Angiostrongylus cantonensis

American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2006
To describe a case of bilateral necrotizing retinitis induced by Angiostrongylus cantonensis.Interventional case report.A 52-year-old Asian woman developed eosinophilic meningitis after eating several undercooked snails. One week later, sudden onset of vision loss was noted in both eyes.
I-Hsien, Liu, Yu-Mei, Chung, Shih-Jen, Chen, Wen-Long, Cho   +3 more
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Hexokinase of Angiostrongylus cantonensis: Presence of a glucokinase

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Comparative Biochemistry, 1979
1. Angiostrongylus cantonensis contains a glucokinase which was isolated by DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. 2. This enzyme has a much higher affinity toward glucose (apparent Km, 0.2 mM) than fructose (apparent Km, 85 mM). Glucose-6-phosphate (10 mM) does not inhibit glucose phosphorylation. 3.
M, Oguchi, T, Kanda, N, Akamatsu
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The spread of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Australia.

The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health, 2000
Until the recent establishment of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North America, Australia was the only developed region endemic for this parasite. Almost 50 years ago the life cycle was elucidated there, in the city of Brisbane, and the first human infections probably occurred in 1959. From the 1970s, increasing numbers of autochthonous infections have
Prociv, P., Carlisle, M. S.
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Studies on Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Molluscan Intermediate Hosts

The Journal of Parasitology, 1967
First-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis from rat feces developed to infective third-stage larvae in 20 of 26 species of freshwater mollusks experimentally exposed. Numbers of larvae up to 2,000 per snail and survival of larvae for a year were observed in Biomphalaria glabrata.
C S, Richards, J W, Merritt
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