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Update on the First Finding of the Rat Lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, in Rattus spp. in Continental Europe, Valencia, Spain, 2022. [PDF]

Pathogens, 2023
Galán-Puchades MT, Gómez-Samblás M, Osuna A, Sáez-Durán S, Bueno-Marí R, Fuentes MV.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prevalence and distribution of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda, Angiostrongylidae) in Achatina fulica (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION Angiostrongylus cantonensis is causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. Worldwide expansion of this nematode is linked to the dispersion of their hosts. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of A.
Laura Rocha Guerino, Iracy Lea Pecora, Marcel Sabino Miranda, Cryslaine Aguiar-Silva, Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Reinaldo José da Silva   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich : its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (CHEN) [PDF]

, 2010
The Giant African Snail, Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich, is a tropical crop pest species with a widespread distribution across East Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.
Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich C., Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich C   +1 more
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Living in the city: Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a novel threat to an urban population of Florida burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia floridana) in south Florida

Parasites & Vectors
Background Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is a metastrongyloid parasite that uses rodents as definitive hosts, mollusks as intermediate hosts, and a wide range of invertebrate and vertebrate species as paratenic hosts.
Håkon Jones, Nicole M. Nemeth, Brittany Piersma, Rebecca Hardman, Lisa A. Shender, Raoul K. Boughton, Kayla B. Garrett, Nikole Castleberry, P. J. Deitschel, Xuan Hui Teo, Rebecca Radisic, Martha Frances Dalton, Michael J. Yabsley   +12 more
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Older urban rats are infected with the zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases
Rats, being synanthropic, are hosts to agents of zoonotic diseases that pose a threat to human and domestic animal health. The nematode parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm, is no exception; it can cause potentially ...
Phoebe Rivory, Miguel Bedoya-Pérez, Michael P. Ward, Jan Šlapeta   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

State biologists say a lungworm, Dictacaulus vivparus, is sickening and killing

, 1995
State biologists say a lungworm, Dictacaulus vivparus, is sickening and killing moose in the state. Sick moose have shown up in Strong, Greenville, Ashland and Mount Chase, and most of the dead ones have had a heavy tick burden.

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Eosinophilic meningoencephalitis caused by Angiostrongylus, the parasitic ‘rat lungworm’: a case report

Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2023
J S Y, Yu, K K, Yip
openaire   +2 more sources

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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A validated high-throughput method for assaying rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) motility when challenged with potentially anthelmintic natural products from Hawaiian fungi. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2022
Rollins RL, Qader M, Gosnell WL, Wang C, Cao S, Cowie RH.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Variation in <i>Angiostrongylus cantonensis</i> infection in definitive and intermediate hosts in Hawaii, a global hotspot of rat lungworm disease. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
Niebuhr CN, Siers SR, Leinbach IL, Kaluna LM, Jarvi SI.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source