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→Aleurostrongylus abstrusus
**Oviviparous females lay egs in lung parenchyma -> first stage larvae coughed up and swallowed ->develop further through larval stages only if enter intermediate hosts - slugs and snails ->eaten paratenic host ->paratenic host eaten by cat.
**Oviviparous females lay egs in lung parenchyma -> first stage larvae coughed up and swallowed ->develop further through larval stages only if enter intermediate hosts - slugs and snails ->eaten paratenic host ->paratenic host eaten by cat.
*Pathology - nematodes in pulmonary parenchyma - coughing, dyspnoea, can be fatal.
*Pathology - nematodes in pulmonary parenchyma - coughing, dyspnoea, can be fatal.
==Angiostrongylus vasorum==
==Angiostrongylus vasorum==