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Reduction of Baylisascaris procyonis Eggs in Raccoon Latrines, Suburban Chicago, Illinois, USA [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Baylisascaris procyonis, a common roundworm of raccoons, causes severe or fatal human infections, often in suburban areas. To evaluate the effectiveness of a baiting strategy requiring minimal labor, we distributed medicated baits near raccoon latrines ...
Kristen Page, Timothy J. Smyser, Elise Dunkerton, Emily Gavard, Bruce Larkin, Stanley Gehrt   +5 more
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The conquest of the north continues: Baylisascaris procyonis in free-ranging invasive raccoons (Procyon lotor) from Germany, including a first report in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
With exception of the Northeast, the raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) is widespread in Germany. This zoonotic parasite can cause neurological disease in paratenic and aberrant hosts, like humans.
Zaida Rentería-Solís, Luis Flores, Torsten Langner, Sandra Gawlowska, Thomas Grochow, Simone Fietz, Stefan Birka, Nina Król, Anna Obiegala   +8 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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Raccoon roundworm prevalence (Baylisascaris procyonis) at the North Carolina Zoo, USA [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Baylisascaris procyonis is an important zoonotic nematode of raccoons (Procyon lotor). Infection with this parasite has important health implications for humans, zoo animals, and free-ranging wildlife.
Meghan M. Louis, Larry J. Minter, James R. Flowers, Michael K. Stoskopf, Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf   +4 more
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Prevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis in wild rodents in central Georgia, USA [PDF]

One Health
Raccoon roundworm, Baylisascaris procyonis, is a zoonotic parasite of raccoons (Procyon lotor) that needs a One Health approach to better inform risks to human and animal health. The few studies on B.
Kayla Garrett, Ian Buchta, Christopher A. Cleveland, Amanda Holley, Sarah G.H. Sapp, Michael Yabsley   +5 more
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Protein phosphorylation networks in Baylisascaris procyonis revealed by phosphoproteomic analysis [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Baylisascaris procyonis is an intestinal ascarid worm that parasitizes in raccoons and causes fatal neural, visceral, and ocular larva migrans in humans.
Qin Meng, Zhikang Li, Qiguan Qiu, Shuyu Chen, Haiyan Gong, Xiaoruo Tan, Xiaoheng Liu, Zhaoguo Chen, Wei Liu   +8 more
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Surveys on Baylisascaris procyonis in two of the three French wild raccoon populations [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Human infection by Baylisascaris procyonis can result in larva migrans syndromes, which can cause severe neurological sequelae and fatal cases. The raccoon serves as the definitive host of the nematode, harboring adult worms in its intestine and ...
Gérald Umhang, Alain C. Frantz, Hubert Ferté, Christine Fournier Chambrillon, Manon Gautrelet, Thibault Gritti, Nathan Thenon, Guillaume Le Loc'h, Estelle Isère-Laoué, Fabien Egal, Christophe Caillot, Stéphanie Lippert, Mike Heddergott, Pascal Fournier, Céline Richomme   +14 more
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Environmental modulators on the development of the raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis): Effects of temperature on the embryogenesis [PDF]

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife
Members of the Ascarididae family are common zoonotic pathogens in humans and play an economic role in domestic and livestock animal husbandry. This family includes the obligatorily parasitic nematodes of the genus Baylisascaris, with the raccoon ...
Robin Stutz, Dorian D. Dörge, Anna V. Schantz, Norbert Peter, Sven Klimpel   +4 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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Baylisascaris procyonis–Associated Meningoencephalitis in a Previously Healthy Adult, California, USA [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
After severe neurocognitive decline developed in an otherwise healthy 63-year-old man, brain magnetic resonance imaging showed eosinophilic meningoencephalitis and enhancing lesions.
Charles Langelier, Michael J. Reid, Cathra Halabi, Natalie Witek, Alejandro LaRiviere, Maulik Shah, Michael R. Wilson, Peter Chin-Hong, Vanja Douglas, Kevin R. Kazacos, Jennifer M. Babik   +10 more
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