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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Nematoda > Chromadorea > Strongylida > Metastrongyloidea > Angiostrongylus

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Angiostrongylus  

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  • infection: coordinate with STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS; coordinate with specific helminth terms (ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, etc.) if pertinent

Scope note

  • A genus of parasitic nematodes of the superfamily METASTRONGYLOIDEA. Two species, ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS and A. vasorum, infest the lungs of rats and dogs, respectively. A. cantonensis is transmissible to man where it causes frequently fatal infection of the central nervous system.

History note

  • 91(81); was see under METASTRONGYLOIDEA 1981-90

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