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Baylisascaris procyonis: An Emerging Helminthic Zoonosis [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
Baylisascaris procyonis, a roundworm infection of raccoons, is emerging as an important helminthic zoonosis, principally affecting young children. Raccoons have increasingly become peridomestic animals living in close proximity to human residences.
Frank J. Sorvillo, Lawrence R. Ash, O.G.W. Berlin, JoAnne Yatabe, Chris Degiorgio, Stephen A. Morse   +5 more
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Distribution and prevalence of Baylisascaris in domestic dogs in the United States and Canada, 2017–2023 [PDF]

One Health
Dogs can serve as alternative definitive hosts for Baylisascaris procyonis, the raccoon roundworm, but prevalence and geographic distribution of canine infections is poorly studied. In a previous study in the United States (US) from 2013 to 2016, 0.005 %
Håkon Jones, Pablo D. Jimenez Castro, Wade Burton, Caroline Sobotyk, Guilherme G. Verocai, Yoko Nagamori, Zephran Warren, Antoinette Marsh, Cassan Pulaski, Heather S.D. Walden, Ashley M. Mitchell, Brian H. Herrin, Jeba R.J. Jesudoss Chelladurai, Michael J. Yabsley   +13 more
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Baylisascaris procyonis (Chromadorea Ascarididae): Case Study of the Little-Known Human Health Threat That Is Literally in Your Backyard [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Baylisascariasis is a debilitating and potentially lethal zoonotic disease caused by a nematode parasite that has a worldwide distribution. Baylisascaris spp.
Scott E. Henke
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Molecular identification of Baylisascaris melis (Gedoelst, 1920) from the Eurasian badger (Meles meles) and ascarids from other wild carnivores in Kazakhstan [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
IntroductionThe presence of gastrointestinal nematodes, including zoonotic ascarids, in wild canids, felids and mustelids as definitive hosts in Central Asian countries has been documented in many studies based on traditional morphological methods.
Rabiga Uakhit, Rabiga Uakhit, Ainura Smagulova, Lyudmila Lider, Lyudmila Lider, Alexandr Shevtsov, Alexandr A. Berber, Alexandr P. Berber, Christian Bauer, Christian Bauer, Vladimir Kiyan   +10 more
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Baylisascaris procyonis Roundworm Infection in Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Washington, USA, 2022 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
We describe a case of Baylisascaris procyonis roundworm infection in a child in Washington, USA, with autism spectrum disorder. Environmental assessment confirmed nearby raccoon habitation and B. procyonis eggs. B.
Beth A. Lipton, Hanna N. Oltean, Roger B. Capron, Arran Hamlet, Susan P. Montgomery, Rebecca J. Chancey, Victoria J.L. Konold, Katherine E. Steffl   +7 more
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Zoonotic Baylisascaris procyonis Infection in Raccoons, Mississippi, USA, 2023–2024 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Baylisascaris procyonis, an emerging zoonotic parasite, causes clinically significant visceral, ophthalmologic, and neurologic disease in humans. We screened raccoons (n = 46) collected from central and southern Mississippi for B. procyonis by necropsy (
Bryan L. Huerta-Beltrán, Huan Zhao, Stephen Mills, Joshua Berry, William Janous, Javian Ervin, Karleigh Butler, Aamani Kalluru, Fritz Valerio, Blake Stefano, Trent Selby, Nicole M. Phillips, Steven Everman, Graham T. Rosser, Charlotte V. Hobbs, Richard S. Bradbury, Scoty M. Hearst   +16 more
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Morphology and ASAP analysis of the important zoonotic nematode parasite Baylisascaris procyonis (Stefahski and Zarnowski, 1951), with molecular phylogenetic relationships of Baylisascaris species (Nematoda: Ascaridida) [PDF]

Parasitology
Species of Baylisascaris (Nematoda: Ascarididae) are of great veterinary and zoonotic significance, owing to cause Baylisascariosis or Baylisascariasis in wildlife, captive animals and humans.
Xiao-Hong Gu, Hui-Xia Chen, Jun-Jie Hu, Liang Li   +3 more
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Baylisascaris procyonis Roundworm in Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor), Mexico [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
We found the zoonotic nematode, Baylisascaris procyonis, in a common raccoon (Procyon lotor) in Mexico. Expansion of raccoons into human-dominated regions might increase the risk of B. procyonis infections in humans.
Ana Luisa Gómez-Sánchez, Carlos Daniel Pinacho-Pinacho, Juan José Barrios-Gutierrez, Ismael Guzmán-Valdivieso, Alberto Gonzalez-Romero, Tania Fonseca-Leal, Andrés M. López-Pérez   +6 more
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Influence of seasonality and biological activity on infection by helminths in Cantabrian bear [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
This study aimed to investigate the variations of parasites in the feces of brown bears Ursus arctos inhabiting the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain).
Esther Valderrábano Cano, Vincenzo Penteriani, Iris Vega, María del Mar Delgado, Enrique González-Bernardo, Giulia Bombieri, Alejandra Zarzo-Arias, Rita Sánchez-Andrade Fernández, Adolfo Paz-Silva   +8 more
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Cerebral baylisascariosis in a rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) in a German Zoo [PDF]

BMC Veterinary Research
Background The raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, can cause a meningoencephalitis as neural larva migrans which is known in avian species, including rainbow lorikeets in North America, but has not been described in Old World parrots in Germany ...
Sarah Pfetzing, Andreas Bernhard, Christian Bauer, Florian Hansmann   +3 more
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