The giant African snail Achatina fulica as natural intermediate host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Pernambuco, northeast Brazil

Acta Tropica

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 194-199

  Thiengo, S C ^a   Maldonado, A ^a   Mota, E M ^a   Torres, E J L ^b   Caldeira, R ^a   Carvalho, O S ^a   Oliveira, A P M ^a   Simoes R O ^a   Fernandez, M A ^a   Lanfredi, R M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Achatina fulica; Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Epidemiology; Invasive species; Metastrongylidae; Pernambuco

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLUMAGE; SNAIL;

ACHANTINA FULICA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EOSINOPHIL MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY ARTERY; RAT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SNAIL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; STRONGYLE INFECTION;

ADULT; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAZIL; CHILD; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PULMONARY ARTERY; RATS; SNAILS; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

ACHATINA FULICA; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS COSTARICENSIS; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; GASTROPODA; METASTRONGYLIDAE; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77953538258     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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