2003•Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina TropicalOpen access
Potentiality of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as intermediate host of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes 1971
Omar dos Santos Carvalho, Horácio MS Teles, Éster Maria Mota, Cristiane Lafetá Gomes Furtado de Mendonça, Henrique Leonel Lenzi
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Abstract
Samples of Achatina fulica were experimentally infected with Angiostrongylus costaricensis larvae, etiological agent of abdominal angiostrongyliasis, showing that A. fulica is susceptible to the parasite. Achatina fulica may be a risk to urbanization of abdominal angiostrongyliasis presumably due to its high proliferation, continuous dispersion and remarkable adaptation in several Brazilian towns.
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