Potentiality of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as intermediate host of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes 1971

Samples of Achatina fulica were experimentally infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis larvae, etiological agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis, showing that A. fulica is susceptible to the parasite. Achatina fulica may be a risk to urbanization of abdominal angiostrongyliasis presumably due to...

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Main Authors: Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Horácio MS Teles, Ester Maria Mota, Cristiane Lafetá Gomes Furtado de Mendonça, Henrique Leonel Lenzi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2003
Subjects:
Achatina fulica
Angiostrongylus costaricensis
Experimental infection
Abdominal angiostrongyliasis
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c151eafbb7904ecbbfc58c9b360009b0
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Summary:Samples of Achatina fulica were experimentally infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis larvae, etiological agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis, showing that A. fulica is susceptible to the parasite. Achatina fulica may be a risk to urbanization of abdominal angiostrongyliasis presumably due to its high proliferation, continuous dispersion and remarkable adaptation in several Brazilian towns.

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