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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Knowledge about parasite species of orcas, their prevalence, and impact on the health status is scarce. Only two records of lungworm infections in orca exist from male neonatal orcas stranded in Germany and Norway.
Kristina Lehnert +2 more
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Genetic diversity and population genetics of large lungworms (Dictyocaulus, Nematoda) in wild deer in Hungary [PDF]
, 2016 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer Verlag via the DOI in this record.Dictyocaulus nematode worms live as parasites in the lower airways of ungulates and can cause significant disease in both wild and ...
Acs, Z, Hayward, A, Sugár, L
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Helpful invaders: Can cane toads reduce the parasite burdens of native frogs?
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2015 Many invading species have brought devastating parasites and diseases to their new homes, thereby imperiling native taxa. Potentially, though, invaders might have the opposite effect. If they take up parasites that otherwise would infect native taxa, but
Felicity B.L. Nelson +3 more
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The Global Spread Pattern of Rat Lungworm Based on Mitochondrial Genetics
Pathogens, 2023 Eosinophilic meningitis due to rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is a global public health concern. Human cases and outbreaks have occurred in the new endemic areas, including South America and Spain. The growing genetic data of A.
Xia Tian +5 more
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Gastropod-Borne Helminths: A Look at the Snail-Parasite Interplay. [PDF]
, 2015 More than 300 million people suffer from a range of diseases caused by gastropod-borne helminths, predominantly flatworms and roundworms, whose life cycles are characterized by a diversified ecology and epidemiology. Despite the plethora of data on these
Cantacessi, Cinzia +4 more
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
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One Health, 2022 The nematode parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) has a complex life cycle involving rats (definitive hosts) and gastropods (intermediate hosts), as well as various paratenic hosts.
Helena C. Turck +2 more
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Integrative Zoology, Volume 21, Issue 1, Page 104-115, January 2026.ABSTRACT The ongoing invasion of the zoonotic parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis threatens humans, other mammals, and birds. In Mallorca, neurological disorders associated with this parasite are increasingly reported in free‐living Algerian hedgehogs, Atelerix algirus, raising public health concerns.
Anna Šipková +7 more
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Lungworm Infections in German dairy cattle herds--seroprevalence and GIS-supported risk factor analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In November 2008, a total of 19,910 bulk tank milk (BTM) samples were obtained from dairy farms from all over Germany, corresponding to about 20% of all German dairy herds, and analysed for antibodies against the bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus by
Anne-Marie Schunn +6 more
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Nematode control in 'green' ruminant production systems [PDF]
, 2004 Collectively, nematode parasites of domestic ruminants continue to pose the greatest disease problem in grazing livestock systems worldwide, despite the powerful and extensive chemotherapeutic arsenal available for their control.
Thamsborg, Stig M., Waller, Peter J.
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