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the presence of angiostrongylus cantonensis in viti levu, fiji.wild rats and molluscs were examined for angiostrongylus cantonensis infection on viti levu, fiji. a. cantonensis were recovered from 29.6% (16/54) of rattus rattus and 59.5% (25/42) of r. exulans. a. cantonensis-like larval nematodes were found in all of four slugs, laevicaulis alte, and ten of 20 unidentified land snails. the larvae developed to adult a. cantonensis in the pulmonary arteries of laboratory rats 40 to 42 days after ingestion. this is the first record of a. cantonensis in fiji.19846501855
severe forms of infection with angiostrongylus cantonensis acquired in australia and fiji. 19947980247
a fatal case of angiostrongyliasis in an 11-month-old infant.an 11-month-old boy developed flaccid quadriparesis after two months in fiji, and was transferred to australia, where a diagnosis of postinfectious myelitis was made. despite peripheral blood eosinophilia, eosinophils were not detected in the cerebrospinal fluid, and an infective aetiology was not identified. the patient died of progressive bulbar dysfunction. at autopsy, numerous nematodes, identified as angiostrongylus cantonensis, were seen in vessels of the lungs, brain and spinal cord, asso ...199910397046
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