Angiostrongylus vasorum
The Role of CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells during Angiostrongylus vasorum Infection in Dogs
... The gut and lung phases of helminth parasite invasion represent particular sites where the migrating larvae can be relatively easily eliminated from the host. Although this, tissue-migrating helminth parasites of many ...
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Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia associated with angiostrongylus vasorum infection in a Jack Russell terrier
... A wide variety of clinical signs have been associated with Angiostrongylus vasorum infection. Commonly reported clinical signs include cardiopulmonary signs such as coughing, exercise intolerance and ...
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Angiostrongylus vasorum and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus: Neglected and underestimated parasites in South America
... nematodes Angiostrongylus vasorum and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus are global causes of cardio/ pulmonary diseases in dogs and ...A. vasorum and ...
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Angiostrongylus vasorum in Romania: an extensive survey in red foxes, Vulpes vulpes
... Angiostrongylus vasorum, or the French heartworm, is the causative agent of canine angiostrongylosis, a severe snail-borne disease of dogs, with an almost worldwide distribution (Europe, South America, ...
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Distribution of Angiostrongylus vasorum and its gastropod intermediate hosts along the rural–urban gradient in two cities in the United Kingdom, using real time PCR
... A. vasorum is not closely related to the presence or absence of particular intermediate host ...of Angiostrongylus vasorum using real-time ...
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Identification of a phenoloxidase and melanin dependent defence mechanism in Achatina fulica infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum
... Background: Angiostrongylus vasorum has different freshwater aquatic and terrestrial gastropod molluscs as an intermediate host, ...genus Angiostrongylus, of importance in human and veterinary ...of ...
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The first seroepidemiological survey for Angiostrongylus vasorum in domestic dogs from Romania
... Angiostrongylus vasorum is a metastrongyloid nema- tode localized in the right heart and the pulmonary arteries of mainly domestic dogs [1] and foxes (Vulpes vulpes) [2], but also in other wild carnivores: ...
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GIS supported epidemiological analysis on canine Angiostrongylus vasorum and Crenosoma vulpis infections in Germany
... [1]. Angiostrongylus vasorum infections are not only life-threating but also have a con- siderable economic impact on the dog ...A. vasorum- or ...A. vasorum and ...A. vasorum and ...A. ...
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Acute neurological signs as the predominant clinical manifestation in four dogs with Angiostrongylus vasorum infections in Denmark
... Angiostrongylus vasorum, also known as the French heart- worm, is an approximately 13-21 millimetre gastropod- borne nematode, recognised in endemic areas of Europe [1-8], North and South America [9-12] and ...
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Pulmonary arterial response to Angiostrongylus vasorum in naturally infected dogs: echocardiographic findings in two cases
... Background: Angiostrongylus vasorum is a nematode living in the pulmonary arteries of ...A. vasorum-infected dogs could be the establishment of large diameter intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses ...
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The effect of host age and inoculation dose on infection dynamics of Angiostrongylus vasorum in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)
... nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum is widely distributed in the temperate and subtropical zone where it infects domestic dogs and other canids, ...A. vasorum infections in dogs and red foxes indicate ...
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Monthly administrations of milbemycin oxime plus afoxolaner chewable tablets to prevent Angiostrongylus vasorum infection in dogs
... A. vasorum reside in the right heart and pulmonary arterial tree of dogs and other ...A. vasorum has an indir- ect life-cycle with canids as the definitive host, terrestrial gastropods (mainly slugs) as ...
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Cross reactions of sera from dogs infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum in commercially available Dirofilaria immitis test kits
... A. vasorum, which had not been con- sidered so ...A. vasorum antigen has been developed evaluating different monoclonal antibodies, which had been selectively chosen based on their ab- sence of ...
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Gastropod derived haemocyte extracellular traps entrap metastrongyloid larval stages of Angiostrongylus vasorum, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior
... of Angiostrongylus vasorum, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior and investigated for gastropod-derived InEPT ...A. vasorum larvae resulted in InEPTs being extruded from haemocytes ...
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Heat treatment and false positive heartworm antigen testing in ex vivo parasites and dogs naturally infected by Dirofilaria repens and Angiostrongylus vasorum
... with Angiostrongylus vasorum and Spirocerca lupi have been reported, but cross-reactions with other helminths have not been extensively ...A. vasorum or ...
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Angiostrongylus vasorum in the eye: new case reports and a review of the literature
... [7]. Angiostrongylus vasorum may cause severe clinical disease in dogs, red foxes and other carnivores, charac- terised by respiratory distress ...A. vasorum impedes collection of data on its spread ...
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Autochthonous Angiostrongylus vasorum in Finland
... Angiostrongylus vasorum has spread farther north in ...A vasorum infection in ...A vasorum infection would have been seen in Finland, three of which had an apparently autochthonous ...A ...
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RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF THORACIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FINDINGS IN DOGS NATURALLY INFECTED BY ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM
... TITLE: Retrospective evaluation of thoracic computed tomography findings in dogs naturally infected by Angiostrongylus vasorum.. AUTHORS: Mark E.[r] ...
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Angiostrongylus vasorum in wolves in Italy: prevalence and pathological findings
... Adult Angiostrongylus vasorum (Nematoda: Metastrongyloi- dea) reside in the heart and pulmonary vessels of dogs and many wild carnivore species [1 – ...5]. Angiostrongylus vasorum has a ...
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Impact of heat treatment on antigen detection in sera of Angiostrongylus vasorum infected dogs
... circulating Angiostrongylus vasorum antigen and specific antibodies have been developed and adopted for individual diagnosis and epidemiological studies in ...A. vasorum antigen in sera of ...
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