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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 198, Issue 3-4, Pages 401-405Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.09.003
Keywords
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; Metastrongyloidea; Arion lusitanicus; Apodemus agrarius; Intermediate host; Paratenic host
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- Ministry of Education and Science, Poland [N N303 499938]
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The cat lungworm Aelurostrongylus abstrusus affects the domestic cats and other felids all over the world. Feline aelurostrongylosis is of importance in clinical feline medicine. Snails and slugs are the intermediate hosts, but the cat is probably infected by eating paratenic hosts, e.g., rodents, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Herein we present the first finding of A. abstrttsus in a naturally infected invasive synantropic slugs Anion lusitanicus (intermediate host) and wild living rodents Apodemus agrarius (paratenic host). The results confirm the usefulness of molecular approaches for investigating the biology, ecology and epidemiology of A. abstrusus, the agent of feline aelurostrongylosis. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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