Difference between revisions of "Category:Angiostrongylidae"

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Dogs (Canids)
Western Europe - not established in USA.
Adults in pulmonary arterial tree.
- can lead to pulmonary thrombosis and pulmonary hypertension
Likely similar lifecycle to Aleurostrongylus abstrusus

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 ==[[Angiostrongylus cantonensis]]==
-*Rats
-*Cause of encephalomyelitis in man and dogs
-*Intermediate host - gian African snail - Achatina fulica.
-*Infection occurs when eating the raw paaratenic host (either the snails, or slugs  and freshwater prawns)
-*''Angiostrongylus vasorum'' live in [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Angiostrongylus vasorum|pulmonary arteries]] of dogs
 [[Category:Metastrongyloidea]]