| first record of angiostrongylus cantonensis (chen, 1935) (nematoda: metastrongylidae) in the dominican republic. | rats, rattus norvegicus, trapped in some sections (barrios) of the city of santo domingo, the capital of the dominican republic showed that 5 of them from two barrios harbored the nematode angiostrongylus cantonensis in the pulmonary artery. macerated and digested terrestrial snails, subulina octona, collected from the backyards of houses where the rats were trapped contained l2 and l3 larvae of the nematode. the morphology of the adult worms and the larvae was consistent with that described for ... | 1992 | 1293731 |