| dogs may be a reservoir host for angiostrongylus costaricensis. | angiostrongylus costaricensis is a parasitic nematode of wild rodents. several other vertebrate species including man may become infected by ingestion of the third stage larvae produced by the intermediate hosts, usually slugs from the family veronicellidae. there is a report of the diagnosis of abdominal angiostrongyliasis in canis familiaris with lesions resembling those found in human disease. as a preliminar evaluation of the adequacy of a canine model for pathogenetic studies, a dog was ino ... | 2002 | 11896414 |