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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 102, No. 7, 2007, pp. 887-889
Bioline Code: oc07160
Full paper language: English
Document type: Short Communication
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 102, No. 7, 2007, pp. 887-889

 en First record of molluscs naturally infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis check for this species in other resources (Chen, 1935) (Nematoda: Metastrongylidae) in Brazil
Caldeira, Roberta Lima; Mendonça, Cristiane L.G.F.; Goveia, Christiane Oliveira; Lenzi, Henrique L.; Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos; Lima, Walter S.; Mota, Ester M.; Pecora, Iracy Lea; de Medeiros, Aline Maria Zigiotto & dos Santos Carvalho, Omar

Abstract

Seeking the identification of Angiostrongylus cantonensis check for this species in other resources as a potential etiological agent of three clinical cases of eosinophilic meningitis, mollusc specimens were collected in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. The snails were identified as Sarasinula marginata check for this species in other resources (45 specimens), Subulina octona check for this species in other resources (157), Achatina fulica check for this species in other resources (45) and Bradybaena similaris check for this species in other resources (23). Larvae obtained were submitted to polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism diagnosis. Their genetic profile were corresponded to A. cantonensis. Rattus norvegicus check for this species in other resources experimentally infected with third-stage larvae, developed menigoencephalitis, and parasites became sexually mature in the lungs. Additionally, larvae obtained from A. fulica snails, from São Vicente, state of São Paulo, also showed genetic profiles of this nematode. This is the first record of Brazilian molluscs infected with this nematode species.

Keywords
Angiostrongylus cantonensis - terrestrial molluscs - Brazil

 
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