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Angiostrongyliasis or Rat Lungworm Disease: a Perspective From Hawai'i

Current Tropical Medicine Reports, 2018
Angiostrongyliasis 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, Kathleen Howe, Patricia Macomber   +2 more
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A Hawaii public education programme for rat lungworm disease prevention. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
AbstractEducation is essential for lowering cases of Angiostrongyliasis in Hawaii. A professional development course on rat lungworm disease (RLWD) prevention was offered to Hawaii K-12 teachers during the 2018–2019 school year. Fourteen teachers, 11 from Hawaii Island and three from Maui, representing grades K, 2, 6–8, and 10−12, completed workshops ...
Howe K, Bernal LM, Brewer FK, Millikan D, Jarvi S.   +4 more
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Magnetic resonance imaging in dogs with neuroangiostrongyliasis (rat lungworm disease). [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
AbstractThe magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appearance of the brain and spinal cord in humans with neuroangiostrongyliasis (NA) due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection has been well reported. Equivalent studies in animals are lacking. This case series describes clinical and MRI findings in 11 dogs with presumptively or definitively diagnosed NA ...
Wun MK, Malik R, Yu J, Chow KE, Lau M, Podadera JM, Webster N, Lee R, Šlapeta J, Davies S.   +9 more
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Rat Lungworm Disease

The pathogenic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a leading global causative agent of eosinophilic meningitis in humans and other species. Clinically, this disease is known as neuroangiostrongyliasis but is colloquially recognized as rat lungworm ...
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High prevalence of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) on eastern Hawai'i Island: A closer look at life cycle traits and patterns of infection in wild rats (Rattus spp.).

PLoS ONE, 2017
The nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a zoonotic pathogen and the etiological agent of human angiostrongyliasis or rat lungworm disease. Hawai'i, particularly east Hawai'i Island, is the epicenter for angiostrongyliasis in the USA. Rats (Rattus spp.
Susan I Jarvi, Stefano Quarta, Steven Jacquier, Kathleen Howe, Deniz Bicakci, Crystal Dasalla, Noelle Lovesy, Kirsten Snook, Robert McHugh, Chris N Niebuhr   +9 more
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Variation in <i>Angiostrongylus cantonensis</i> infection in definitive and intermediate hosts in Hawaii, a global hotspot of rat lungworm disease. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
AbstractAngiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) is a tropical and subtropical parasitic nematode, with infections in humans causing angiostrongyliasis (rat lungworm disease), characterized by eosinophilic meningitis. Hawaii has been identified as a global hotspot of infection, with recent reports of high infection rates in humans, as well as rat ...
Niebuhr CN, Siers SR, Leinbach IL, Kaluna LM, Jarvi SI.   +4 more
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Further studies of neuroangiostrongyliasis (rat lungworm disease) in Australian dogs: 92 new cases (2010-2020) and results for a novel, highly sensitive qPCR assay. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
AbstractThe principal aim of this study was to optimize the diagnosis of canine neuroangiostrongyliasis (NA). In total, 92 cases were seen between 2010 and 2020. Dogs were aged from 7 weeks to 14 years (median 5 months), with 73/90 (81%) less than 6 months and 1.7 times as many males as females.
Lee R, Pai TY, Churcher R, Davies S, Braddock J, Linton M, Yu J, Bell E, Wimpole J, Dengate A, Collins D, Brown N, Reppas G, Jaensch S, Wun MK, Martin P, Sears W, Šlapeta J, Malik R.   +18 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
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Albendazole-doxycycline combination therapy alleviates MRI- and pathology-evident neuroinflammation and restores IL-33/GFAP balance in mouse neuroangiostrongyliasis. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Background Angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lungworm) infection causes neuroangiostrongyliasis, a parasitic disease characterized by eosinophilic meningitis and meningoencephalitis.
Jhan KY, Sofiyatun E, Chiu SC, Chou CJ, Day YA, Chiang PJ, Jung SM, Chen WJ, Cheng PC, Wang LC.   +9 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. [PDF]

Parasit 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.
Jones H, Nemeth NM, Piersma B, Hardman R, Shender LA, Boughton RK, Garrett KB, Castleberry N, Deitschel PJ, Teo XH, Radisic R, Dalton MF, Yabsley MJ.   +12 more
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