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Reducing Rat Lungworm Disease in Hawai'i Through a Collaborative Partnership With K-12 School Garden and Agriculture Projects. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2018 A recent increase in serious cases of rat lungworm disease impacts Hawai'i's agriculture and human health. Slugs and snails, agricultural pests, are intermediate hosts of Angiostrongylus cantonensis the rat lungworm.
Howe K +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), a zoonotic parasite invasive to the United States, causes eosinophilic meningoencephalitis. A. cantonensis harbors in rat reservoir hosts and is transmitted through gastropods and other paratenic hosts.
Nicole L. Gottdenker +10 more
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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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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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Autochthonous Angiostrongylus cantonensis Lungworms in Urban Rats, Valencia, Spain, 2021
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 To determine the role of rats as potential reservoirs of zoonotic parasites, we examined rats trapped in urban sewers of Valencia, Spain, in 2021. Morphologic and molecular identification and sequencing identified autochthonous Angiostrongylus cantonensis nematodes, the most common cause of human eosinophilic meningitis, in pulmonary arteries of Rattus
Galán Puchades, María Teresa +5 more
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2022 This integrative literature review study analyzes the findings of the last 5 years of the parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis. It is known that this nematode is found in the pulmonary arteries of rats, where it remains as a definitive host.
M. S. N. Carvalho +14 more
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Neuroangiostrongyliasis: Updated Provisional Guidelines for Diagnosis and Case Definitions
Pathogens, 2023 Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the main causative agent for eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans. Larvae are rarely found in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). Consequently, serology and DNA detection represent important diagnostic tools.
Carlos Graeff-Teixeira +11 more
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Release of Lungworm Larvae from Snails in the Environment: Potential for Alternative Transmission Pathways [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts.
A Di Cesare +51 more
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Lungworms in Definitive and Intermediate Hosts, Madagascar, 2024. [PDF]
Emerg Infect DisWe assessed the prevalence of the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, in rats and snails in Toamasina, Madagascar, using molecular techniques.
Maminirina LA +4 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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