title: Potentiality of Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) as intermediate host of the Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Céspedes 1971.
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.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, Brasil. omar@cpqrr.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Omar dos Santos
authors.initials: Odos S
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Horácio M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Teles
authors.forename: Ester Maria
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.forename: Cristiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lafetá
authors.forename: Gomes Furtado
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: de Mendonça
authors.forename: Henrique Leonel
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Lenzi
mesh_terms: D017185:Angiostrongylus cantonensis / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008974:Mollusca / Q000469:parasitology*