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Susceptibility and morbidity between male and female Swiss mice infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis: Susceptibilidade e morbidade entre camundongos Swiss machos e fêmeas infectados com Angiostrongylus costaricensis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2010
The gender of vertebrate hosts may affect the outcome of parasitic infections. An experimental murine infection with Angiostrongylus costaricensis was followed with determinations of body weight, fecal larval elimination, number and length of adult worms,
Márcia B. Mentz, Eliane Dallegrave, Carlos Graeff-Teixeira   +2 more
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Occurrence of larvae of Metastrongyloidea in feaces of cats from southeastern Poland

Medycyna Weterynaryjna, 2019
Faecal samples from 716 cats from Poland, were examined for lungworm larvae (Metastrongyloidea) by flotation, sedimentation and Baermann techniques between January 2016 and April 2019 year.
K. Szczepaniak, P. Leśniak, M. Studzińska, M. Roczeń-Karczmarz, M. Demkowska-Kutrzepa, A. Junkuszew, K. Tomczuk   +6 more
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Natural infection of Deroceras laeve (Mollusca: gastropoda) with metastrongylid larvae in a transmission focus of abdominal angiostrongyliasis Infecção natural de Deroceras laeve com larvas de metastrongilídeos em um foco de transmissão da angiostrongilíase abdominal

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2002
Angiostrongylus costaricensis is a nematode parasitic of rodents. Man may become infected by ingestion of the third stage larvae produced within the intermediate hosts, usually slugs from the family Veronicellidae. An epidemiological study carried out in
Rafael Lucyk MAURER, Carlos GRAEFF-TEIXEIRA, José Willibaldo THOMÉ, Luís Antônio CHIARADIA, Hiroko SUGAYA, Kentaro YOSHIMURA   +5 more
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The current situation of Angiostrongylus vasorum in Romania: a national questionnaire-based survey

BMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background Angiostrongylus vasorum (Nematoda, Metastrongyloidea) is a vascular nematode that resides in the pulmonary arteries and the right side of the heart of a wide variety of carnivores, with an indirect life cycle using coprophagic gastropods as ...
Georgiana Deak, Eduardo Berriatua, Andrei Daniel Mihalca   +2 more
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Analysis of Circulating Haemocytes from Biomphalaria glabrata following Angiostrongylus vasorum Infection Using Flow Cytometry

Journal of Parasitology Research, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
Angiostrongylus vasorum is an emerging parasite of dogs and related to carnivores that have an indirect life cycle, with a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic gastropods as the obligatory intermediate host. Unfortunately, the relationship between A. vasorum and their snail hosts remains poorly understood.
Thales A. Barçante, Joziana M. P. Barçante, Ricardo T. Fujiwara, Walter S. Lima, C. Genchi   +4 more
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The biogeography of the caribou lungworm, Varestrongylus eleguneniensis (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae) across northern North America

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020
Varestrongylus eleguneniensis (Nematoda; Protostrongylidae) is a recently described species of lungworm that infects caribou (Rangifer tarandus), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) and moose (Alces americanus) across northern North America.
Guilherme G. Verocai, Eric P. Hoberg, Manon Simard, Kimberlee B. Beckmen, Marco Musiani, Sam Wasser, Christine Cuyler, Micheline Manseau, Umer N. Chaudhry, Cyntia K. Kashivakura, John S. Gilleard, Susan J. Kutz   +11 more
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Gurltia paralysans: A Neglected Angio-Neurotropic Parasite of Domestic Cats (Felis catus) and Free-Ranging Wild Felids (Leopardus spp.) in South America

Pathogens, 2022
Gurltia paralysans is a neglected and re-emerging metastrongyloid angio-neurotropic nematode causing severe chronic meningomyelitis in domestic cats (Felis catus) as well as in free-ranging small wild felids such as kodkods (Leopardus guigna), margays ...
Lisbeth Rojas-Barón, Anja Taubert, Carlos Hermosilla, Marcelo Gómez, Manuel Moroni, Pamela Muñoz   +5 more
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Angiostrongylus dujardini infection in a coconut lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) from a zoological garden in Switzerland. [PDF]

, 2023
Angiostrongylus spp. (Metastrongyloidea) can cause severe disease in several animal species and humans. This report describes an infection with Angiostrongylus dujardini in a captive Coconut lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) from a zoo in Switzerland ...
Basso, Walter, Meister, Seraina L, Moré, G, Origgi, Francesco C, Wenker, Christian, Wyss, Fabia S   +5 more
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The first report of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Nematoda; Metastrongyloidea) in Poland, in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

Acta Parasitologica, 2014
Angiostrongylus vasorum belongs to the superfamily of Metastrongyloidea. This nematode occurs in foxes, dogs and other predators. The Nematode A. vasorum place themselves in the pulmonary artery and its branches, and in the right ventricle and atrium of ...
A. Demiaszkiewicz, A. Pyziel, I. Kuligowska, J. Lachowicz   +3 more
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First report of a naturally patent infection of Angiostrongylus costaricensis in a dog [PDF]

, 2015
Angiostrongylus costaricensis is the zoonotic agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in several countries in North and South America. Rodents are recognized as the main definitive hosts of A.
Alfaro Alarcón, A, Annoscia, G, Cerrone, A, Chinchilla, A, Colella, V, Dantas Torres, F, Galiero, G, Gutierrez, N, Otranto, D, Santoro, M., VENEZIANO, VINCENZO   +10 more
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