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Angiostrongylus cantonensis (the Rat Lungworm) Infection and Hearing Loss
Comprehensive ENT, 2023Seçkin Ulusoy
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Species Identity and Size are Associated with Rat Lungworm Infection in Gastropods
EcoHealth, 2020Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is an emerging zoonotic pathogen that cycles between definitive rat and intermediate gastropod hosts. Zoonotic infection occurs when humans intentionally or accidentally consume infectious larvae in a gastropod host, and may manifest as neuroangiostrongyliasis, characterized by eosinophilic meningitis ...
Randi L Rollins, Robert H Cowie
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Angiostrongyliasis (Rat Lungworm Disease): Viewpoints from Hawai‘i Island [PDF]
ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2017 Hawai'i, particularly east Hawai'i Island, is the epicenter for angiostrongyliasis in the United States. Case numbers have been increasing and appear to parallel the introduction and spread of the semislug (Parmarion martensi) to east Hawai'i. The infective larvae in rainwater catchment as a source for household and agricultural water may also play a ...
Kathleen Howe, Susan I Jarvi
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Lungworm from Rats captured in Britain
Nature, 1957DURING the period December 1954–April 1956, the lungs of a total of 191 wild rats from Cambridge, Cardiff, Liverpool, London, Nottingham, St. Albans and Wolverhampton were examined for lungworms. They included 24 Rattus rattus L. and 167 Rattus norvegicus Erkl. It was only possible to examine fresh lungs of nine Rattus rattus from London. The remaining
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The Journal of Parasitology, 1986
Flubendazole and mebendazole given orally at 10 mg/kg/day 5-7 days post-infection (total 30 mg/kg) were found to eliminate 93-100% of Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae in mice and rats. No significant difference was observed between the effects of the 2 drugs.
J, Maki, T, Yanagisawa
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Flubendazole and mebendazole given orally at 10 mg/kg/day 5-7 days post-infection (total 30 mg/kg) were found to eliminate 93-100% of Angiostrongylus cantonensis larvae in mice and rats. No significant difference was observed between the effects of the 2 drugs.
J, Maki, T, Yanagisawa
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Angiostrongyliasis or Rat Lungworm Disease: a Perspective From Hawai'i
Current Tropical Medicine Reports, 2018Angiostrongyliasis is contracted by the ingestion of or exposure to the zoonotic parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which requires two hosts to complete its life cycle. Rats are known to be the definitive hosts and mollusks are intermediate hosts.
Susan I. Jarvi +2 more
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A severe case of rat lungworm disease in Hawa'i.
Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health, 2014A 23-year-old man living on the island of Hawa'i developed a life threatening case of eosinophilic meningitis caused by infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm disease: RLWD). He was comatose for 3 months, incurring brain and nerve damage sufficiently extensive that he was not expected to recover.
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Australia’s gardens, slugs and snails: the risks of pica and rat-lungworm infection
Australasian Psychiatry, 2013Griffith Health, School of Medicine ; No Full ...
Beckmann, Klaus Martin +1 more
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Veterinary Parasitology, 2013
The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of angiostrongylosis in tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) and brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) with signs of neurological disease, and to describe the clinicopathological features of angiostrongylosis in both species.
Gemma, Ma +4 more
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The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of angiostrongylosis in tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) and brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) with signs of neurological disease, and to describe the clinicopathological features of angiostrongylosis in both species.
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis and rat lungworm disease in Brazil.
Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health, 2014The metastrongyloid nematode genus Angiostrongylus includes 18 species, two of which are relevant from a medical standpoint, Angiostrongylus costaricensis and Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The first was described from Costa Rica in 1971 and causes abdominal angiostrongyliasis in the Americas, including in Brazil.
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