Geographic range expansion for the rat lungworm in North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1234-1236

  York, Emily M ^a   Creecy, James P ^a   Lord, Wayne D ^a   Caire, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HELMINTH DNA;

ADULT; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EOSINOPHILIC MENINGITIS; FLOTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASES; SIGMODONTINAE; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMODONTINAE; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84931339808     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2107.141980     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Daszak P, Cunningham AA, Hyatt AD. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife-threats to biodiversity and human health. Science. 2000;287:443–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5452.443
2. Bengis RG, Leighton FA, Fischer JR, Artois M, Morner T, Tate CM. The role of wildlife in emerging and re-emerging zoonoses. Rev Sci Tech. 2004;23:497–511.
3. Patz JA, Graczyk TK, Geller N, Vittor AY. Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases. Int J Parasitol. 2000; 30:1395–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00141-7
4. Prociv P, Spratt DM, Carlisle MS. Neuro-angiostrongyliasis: unresolved issues. Int J Parasitol. 2000;30:1295–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00133-8
5. Duffy MS, Miller C, Kinsella J, Lahunta A. Parastrongylus cantonensis in a nonhuman primate, Florida. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10:2207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1012.040319
6. Wang QP, Lai DH, Zhu XQ, Chen XG, Lun ZR. Human angiostrongyliasis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008;8:621–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70229-9
7. Lindo JF, Waugh C, Hall J, Cunningham-Myrie C, Ashley D, Eberhard M, et al. Enzootic Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats and snails after an outbreak of human eosinophilic meningitis, Jamaica. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8:324–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0803.010316
8. Kliks MM, Palumbo N. Eosinophilic meningitis beyond the Pacific Basin: the global dispersal of a peridomestic zoonosis by Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the nematode lungworm of rats. Soc Sci Med. 1992;34:199–212.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(92)90097-A
9. York EM, Butler CJ, Lord WD. Global decline in suitable habitat for Angiostrongylus (=Parastrongylus) cantonensis: the role of climate change. PLoS ONE. 2014;9:e103831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103831
10. Qvarnstrom Y, Silva A, Teem J, Hollingsworth R, Bishop H, Graeff-Teixeira C, et al. Improved molecular detection of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in mollusks and other environmental sample with a species-specific ITS1-based TaqMan assay. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010;76:5287–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00546-10
11. Kim DY, Stewart T, Bauer R, Mitchell M. Parastrongylus (=Angiostrongylus) cantonensis now endemic in Louisiana. J Parasitol. 2002;88:1024–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1024:PACNEI]2.0.CO;2
12. Rachowicz LJ, Hero JM, Alford RA, Taylor JW, Morgan JAT, Vredenburg VT, et al. The novel and endemic pathogen hypotheses: competing explanations for the origin of emerging infectious diseases of wildlife. Conservation Biology. 2005;19:1441–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00255.x
13. Whitaker JO Jr. National Audubon Society field guide to North American mammals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 1980. p. 745.
14. Mora C, Tittensor DP, Adl S, Simpson AG, Worm B. How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biol. 2011;9:e1001127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
15. Cunningham AA. A walk on the wild side–emerging wildlife diseases. BMJ. 2005;331:1214–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7527.1214