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Identificação de roedores silvestres como hospedeiros do Angiostrongylus costaricensis no sul do Brasil

open access: yes, 1990
Increasing number of human cases of abdominal angiostrongyliasis has been diagnosed in the south of Brazil. The main definitive host of Angiostrongylus costaricensis in Central America is the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) that does not occur in South ...
Lenzi, Henrique Leonel   +4 more
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Potentiality of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as intermediate host of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes 1971

open access: yes, 2017
Samples of Achatina fulica were experimentally infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis larvae, etiological agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis, showing that A. fulica is susceptible to the parasite.
Carvalho, Omar dos Santos   +4 more
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Angiostrongylus costaricensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea), a new lungworm occurring in man in Costa Rica

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2002
Angiostrongylus costaricensis n. sp. is described from Costa Rica where it produces lesions in the abdominal cavity of man. It can be distinguished from other species of the genus on the basis of its size, the length of the spicules, the position of the ...
Pedro Morera, Rodolfo Céspedesu
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Diagnosis of abdominal angiostrongyliasis by PCR from sera of patients

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2003
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis is a zoonotic infection caused by an intra-vascular nematode parasitic of wild rodents, Angiostrongylus costaricensis.
Silva Ana Cristina Arámburu da   +2 more
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Cães podem ser hospedeiros reservatórios do Angiostrongylus costaricensis

open access: yes, 2002
Angiostrongylus costaricensis é um nematódeo parasita de roedores silvestres. Várias espécies de vertebrados incluindo o homem, podem se infectar pela ingestão das larvas de terceiro estágio (L3) produzidas no hospedeiro intermediário, geralmente lesmas ...
OLIVAES, Augusto José Oliveira   +8 more
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Abdominal Angiostrongylosis in Southern Brazil - Prevalence and Parasitic Burden in Mollusc Intermediate Hosts from Eighteen Endemic Foci

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a parasitic nematode of rodents and molluscs are the intermediate hosts. Nocturnal collection of molluscs and search for infective third stage larvae of A.
Rambo Paulo R   +2 more
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In vitro maintenance of Angiostrongylus costaricensis does not provide physiological conditions for egg laying

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2005
Fifteen pairs (male/female) of Angiostrongylus costaricensis were kept in vitro in Waymouth medium for three days to evaluate the amount and duration of egg laying.
Márcia Bohrer Mentz   +1 more
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Angiostrongylus costaricensis and experimental infection of Sarasinula marginata II: elimination routes

open access: yesMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Angiostrongylus costaricensis intermediate hosts are terrestrial mollusks mostly belonging to the Veronicellidae family. In the present investigation we focused on the mechanisms of larval expulsion from Sarasinula marginata infected with A ...
Mendonça Cristiane Lafeta Gomes Furtado   +5 more
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