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'''Intermediate host''': Mainly snails and slugs.
'''Intermediate host''': Mainly snails and slugs.
It exists mainly in Western Europe - not established in the USA.
==Identification==
==Identification==
The larvae then develop in the definitive host, and migrate via the mesenteric lymph nodes, and the blood where they affect the heart, primarily the right ventricle.
The larvae then develop in the definitive host, and migrate via the mesenteric lymph nodes, and the blood where they affect the heart, primarily the right ventricle.
Adults establish within the pulmonary arterial tree and can lead to pulmonary thrombosis and pulmonary hypertension. The clinical disease is '''[[Angiostrongylosis]]'''.
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