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Telling Consumers, Gardeners, and Farmers about the Possible Risk of Rat Lungworm in the Local Food Supply in Hawai‘i

The rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, uses various species of rats as its definitive hosts and a wide range of slug and snail species as its intermediate hosts.1,2 When ingested by humans, this nematode is a major cause of eosinophilic meningitis.3 However, the risk of consuming the rat lun...

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Autor principal: Hollyer, James R
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: University Clinical, Education & Research Associate (UCERA) 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689482/
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