The bandicoot rat, a new host record for Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Indonesia.
A survey for Angiostrongylus cantonensis in possible definitive and intermediate hosts was conducted in Ancol, Jakarta. Adult worms were found in 43% of bandicoot rats, Bandicota indica setifera, in 14% of Rattus rattus diardii and 36% of the Achatina fulica were infected with larval forms of the parasite. The finding of the parasite in the bandicoot rat constitutes a new host record for Indonesia.
D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D007214:Indonesia; D008681:Metastrongyloidea; D051381:Rats / Q000469:parasitology*