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