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PLoS ONE, 2017 The nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic pathogen and the etiological agent of human angiostrongyliasis or rat lungworm disease. Hawai‘i, particularly east Hawai‘i Island, is the epicenter for angiostrongyliasis in the USA. Rats (Rattus spp.
S. Jarvi +9 more
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Moose Survival and Habitat‐Associated Risk of Endoparasites
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.We observed high rates of adult and calf moose survival in New York State, with mortality primarily due to disease associated with giant liver fluke infections. Calf mortality risk increased with increasing use of wetlands, where they can acquire giant liver fluke infections, and decreased with higher amounts of nutritional energy available.
Jennifer A. Grauer +5 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Angiostrongylus vasorum, Crenosoma vulpis and Eucoleus aerophilus are a source of increasing concern, potentially causing significant pulmonary and severe cardiac/systemic diseases in domestic dogs and wild canids, especially red foxes (Vulpes vulpes ...
Kathrin Schug +6 more
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MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2018 Angiostrongyliasis is caused by infection and migration to the brain of larvae of the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, or rat lungworm. Adult A.
Eugene W. Liu +15 more
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Rat Lungworm Infection in Rodents across Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), a parasitic nematode that can cause eosinophilic meningitis in humans, was first detected in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in the mid-1980s and now appears to be widespread in the southeastern United States.
R. Rael +5 more
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A Review of Rat Lungworm Infection and Recent Data on Its Definitive Hosts in Hawai‘i [PDF]
, 2018 Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) is a zoonotic nematode that causes rat lungworm disease (angiostrongyliasis), a potentially debilitating form of meningitis, in humans worldwide.
Siers, Shane R. +2 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Infections with the bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus might lead to reduced milk production and detrimental impacts on milk quality resulting in considerable economic losses in dairy farming.
Katharina May +3 more
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Prevalence of Ovine Lungworm and Associated Risk Factors in and Around Debre Berhan Town, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2017 A cross sectional study was conducted in and around Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia from November 2016 to April 2017. The objectives of study were to estimate the prevalence of lungworm infection and associated risk factors in sheep.
Bekele T, Shibbiru T
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Lungworm infection in farmed red deer
, 2015 Lungworm is the most important parasite of farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) in New Zealand. Because of the morphological similarity between deer-derived and cattle-derived lungworm, it has been assumed that the lungworm infecting red deer is Dictyocaulus
Johnson, Marion Gay
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2017 Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, was the cause of neural larval migrans in two nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) and one Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) from the southeastern United States.
M. F. Dalton +4 more
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