First Report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda: Angiostrongylidae) Infections in Invasive Rodents from Five Islands of the Ogasawara Archipelago, Japan

BACKGROUND: Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935) is a parasite of murid rodents and causative agent of human neuro-angiostrongyliasis. In 2011, the Ogasawara Islands in the western North Pacific were assigned a World Natural Heritage site status. The occurrence of A. cantonensis is well document...

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Main Authors: Tokiwa, Toshihiro, Hashimoto, Takuma, Yabe, Tatsuo, Komatsu, Noriyuki, Akao, Nobuaki, Ohta, Nobuo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737349/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23950989
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070729
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