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Encyclopedia: Angiostrongyliasis
Angiostrongyliasis is an infection by a nematode from the Angiostrongylus genus of kidney and alimentary tract roundworms. For example, infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis can occur after consu...
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Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis was discovered in rats in Canton, China by Chen in 1944, and human infection with the lungworm was recognized by Nomura and Lin in Taiwan in 1945 when A. cantonensis was recovered from the cerebral spinal fluid of a fifteen-year-old boy with acute meningitis.
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Angiostrongylus Infection. (Angiostrongyliasis). Fact Sheet Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection · DPDx Lab Assistance Angiostrongylus Infection...
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Angiostrongyliasis is infection with larvae of worms of the genus Angiostrongylus; intestinal symptoms or eosinophilic meningitis occurs depending on the...
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Free Online Library: Angiostrongyliasis, mainland China.(Letter to the Editor) by "Emerging Infectious Diseases"; Health, general To the Editor: The first case of angiostrongyliasis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in mainland China was reported in 1984; only 3 cases were reported between then and 1996 (1).
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Individuals of this species were found to carry large numbers of infective third stage larvae of the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935), the causative agent of human angiostrongyliasis and the most common cause of human eosinophilic meningoencephalitis.
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To the Editor: The first case of angiostrongyliasis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis in mainland China was reported in 1984; From 1994 to 2003, 84 cases of angiostrongyliasis were documented in mainland China. Of all the cases, 29 were reported individually, and 55 were reported from the 2 outbreaks that occurred...
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Changing Epidemiology of Angiostrongyliasis Cantonensis in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Ryuji Asato*, Katsuya Taira, Masaji Nakamura, Jun Kudaka, Kiyomasa Itokazu and Masanori Kawanaka1; Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment, Okinawa 901-1202 and;
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