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SUBMITTER: Ramos-de-Souza J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8102712 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife 20210223
The life cycles of many parasitic nematodes include terrestrial gastropods as intermediate hosts. Over the past few decades, a number of cases of parasitism between molluscs and medically-important nematodes have been reported in Brazil, in particular, those involving the invasive giant African gastropod, <i>Achatina fulica</i>, and zoonoses caused by the nematodes <i>Angiostrongylus cantonensis</i> and <i>Angiostrongylus costaricensis</i>, the etiological agents of neuroangiostrongyliasis and a ...[more]