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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Neuroangiostrongyliasis: disease in wildlife and humans

David M Spratt

Microbiology Australia 26(2) 63 - 64
Published: 2005

Abstract

Angiostrongyliasis is a neurological disease caused by the rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, one of the most catholic nematode parasites of vertebrates. Infection has occurred accidentally in humans, a broad spectrum of eutherian and marsupial mammals, and recently in birds.

https://doi.org/10.1071/MA05063

© CSIRO 2005

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