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PATHOGENS
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10080960
Keywords
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus; Cornu aspersum; development; temperature
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The study found that the larval development of A. abstrusus in C. aspersum is positively influenced by the increase in temperature, with a higher mean developmental rate observed at 25 degrees Celsius compared to lower temperatures.
The metastrongyloid Aelurostrongylus abstrusus has an indirect lifecycle involving gastropod intermediate hosts. The widespread snail Cornu aspersum is an efficient intermediate host of A. abstrusus. As the temperature may influence the developmental rate of metastrongyloids from first (L1) to the third infective larval stage (L3) inside molluscs, this study evaluated the effect of two controlled temperatures on the development of A. abstrusus in C. aspersum. Overall, 300 snails were infected with 500 L1 of A. abstrusus and kept at similar to 25 degrees C. Fifteen days post infection (D15), the overall developmental rate to L3 (0.8%) was assessed in a subset of 20 snails. The remaining gastropods were divided in 2 groups, i.e., 180 still kept at similar to 25 degrees C (G1) and 100 hibernated at similar to 4 degrees C (G2). On D30, the larval development was evaluated in 20 snails from each group, while another batch of 80 snails was selected random from G1 and hibernated at similar to 4 degrees C (G3). The larval developmental rate was determined digesting 20 snails from each of the three groups on D45, D60, and D75. The higher mean developmental rate was registered in G1 (3.8%) compared to G2 (1.9%) and G3 (2.3%), indicating that the development to L3 of A. abstrusus in C. aspersum is positively influenced by the increase of temperature.
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