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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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Estimating Human Exposure to Rat Lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) on Hawai'i Island: A Pilot Study. [PDF]

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2020
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic, parasitic nematode causing angiostrongyliasis or rat lungworm disease. Clinical diagnosis in humans is currently confirmed by detection of parasite DNA in cerebrospinal fluid. This study estimated human exposure to A.
Jarvi SI, Eamsobhana P, Quarta S, Howe K, Jacquier S, Hanlon A, Snook K, McHugh R, Tman Z, Miyamura J, Kramer K, Meyer M.   +11 more
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Successful Removal of Angiostrongylus cantonensis Larvae from the Central Nervous System of Rats 7- and 14-Days Post-Infection Using a Product Containing Moxidectin, Sarolaner and Pyrantel Embonate (Simparica Trio™) in Experimental Infections

Pathogens, 2023
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode with an indirect lifecycle, using molluscs as intermediate hosts. Rats are the definitive host. By administering a suitable anthelmintic, at an appropriate interval, the risk of clinical neuroangiostrongyliasis ...
Michaela Henry, Richard Malik, Jan Šlapeta, Rogan Lee   +3 more
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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, Gómez Samblás, María Mercedes, Osuna, Antonio, Sáez-Durán, Sandra, Bueno Marí, Rubén, Fuentes, Màrius Vicent   +5 more
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Lungworm of cattle in Malaysia [PDF]

, 2010
Bovine lungworm Dictyocaulus viviparus is highly endemic in temperate regions. However, the occurrence of the lungworm has not been reported in any South East Asian country.
E., Azlan, Htun, Lat Lat, Hassan, Latiffah, S., Jeyabalan, Abdullah Sani, Rehana, M., Hishammfariz, K., Rohani, Abdul Rahman, Sheikh Omar, P., Ramli   +8 more
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Detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the Blood and Peripheral Tissues of Wild Hawaiian Rats (Rattus rattus) by a Quantitative PCR (qPCR) Assay. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a rat lungworm, a zoonotic pathogen that causes human eosinophilic meningitis and ocular angiostrongyliasis characteristic of rat lungworm (RLW) disease.
Susan I Jarvi, William C Pitt, Margaret E Farias, Laura Shiels, Michael G Severino, Kathleen M Howe, Steven H Jacquier, Aaron B Shiels, Karis K Amano, Blaine C Luiz, Daisy E Maher, Maureen L Allison, Zachariah C Holtquist, Neil T Scheibelhut   +13 more
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Using cerebrospinal fluid to confirm Angiostrongylus cantonensis as the cause of canine neuroangiostrongyliasis in Australia where A. cantonensis and Angiostrongylus mackerrasae co-exist

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2021
Both Angiostrongylus cantonensis and Angiostrongylus mackerrasae have been identified along the east coast of Australia. A lack of A. mackerrasae genomic data until 2019, however, has precluded the unequivocal identification of the Angiostrongylus ...
Jeevitheswara Thammannaya Mallaiyaraj Mahalingam, Nichola Eliza Davies Calvani, Rogan Lee, Richard Malik, Jan Šlapeta   +4 more
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Low diversity of Angiostrongylus cantonensis complete mitochondrial DNA sequences from Australia, Hawaii, French Polynesia and the Canary Islands revealed using whole genome next-generation sequencing

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Rats (Rattus spp.) invaded most of the world as stowaways including some that carried the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the cause of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans and other warm-blooded animals.
Barbora Červená, David Modrý, Barbora Fecková, Kristýna Hrazdilová, Pilar Foronda, Aron Martin Alonso, Rogan Lee, John Walker, Chris N. Niebuhr, Richard Malik, Jan Šlapeta   +10 more
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The scourge of Rat lungworm disease in Continental Europe, an emerging parasite

International Journal of Surgery: Global Health, 2023
In Europe, rat lungworm diseases have so far been reported exclusively at the insular level, specifically in Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus rats in Tenerife (the Canary Islands) and Atelerix algirus hedgehogs in Mallorca (the Balearic Islands). Researchers in Spain detected the parasite, the rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), in two different
Malik Olatunde Oduoye, Abubakar Nazir, Awais Nazir, Mutiu Olamide Abdulrahman, Aymar Akilimali, Inibehe I. Okon, Fabrice Kibukila, Olivier Nyakio   +7 more
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Angiostrongylus cantonensis Eosinophilic Meningitis in an Infant, Tennessee, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is the most common infectious cause of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis worldwide. This parasite is endemic to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, and its global distribution is increasing.
Tim Flerlage, Yvonne Qvarnstrom, John Noh, John P. Devincenzo, Arshia Madni, Bindiya Bagga, Nicholas D. Hysmith   +6 more
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