The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)

The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals....

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Published in:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Main Authors: Davidson, Rebecca K, Handeland, Kjell, Gjerde, Bjørn
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Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2006
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Brief Communication
Fennoscandian
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1553464
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16987402
https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-48-6
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1553464 2023-05-15T16:12:54+02:00 The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles) Davidson, Rebecca K Handeland, Kjell Gjerde, Bjørn 2006-06-13 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1553464 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16987402 https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-48-6 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1553464 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16987402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-48-6 Copyright © 2006 Davidson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Brief Communication Text 2006 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-48-6 2013-08-31T05:59:31Z The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals. The first stage larvae (L1) closely resembled, in size and morphology, those of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Baillet 1866). The diagnosis for both A. falciformis and A. vasorum is frequently based on the identification of L1 in faeces or sputum. The potential for misclassification of an A. falciformis infection as A. vasorum, where larval identification is the only diagnostic method used, is discussed. Text Fennoscandian PubMed Central (PMC) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 48 1
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The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
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description The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals. The first stage larvae (L1) closely resembled, in size and morphology, those of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Baillet 1866). The diagnosis for both A. falciformis and A. vasorum is frequently based on the identification of L1 in faeces or sputum. The potential for misclassification of an A. falciformis infection as A. vasorum, where larval identification is the only diagnostic method used, is discussed.
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