| use of a commercial serologic test for angiostrongylus vasorum for the detection of a. chabaudi in wildcats and a. daskalovi in badgers. | three species of the genus angiostrongylus are known to infect european carnivores: a. vasorum (mainly in canids but also in other carnivores), a. chabaudi (in felids) and a. daskalovi (in mustelids). a. vasorum is responsible for clinically severe disease in domestic dogs, most commonly diagnosed based on fecal examination and serological detection of circulating antigens. considering the poorly known host range and the challenging larval differentiation in the feces between the three species o ... | 2017 | 28043379 |
| angiostrongylus chabaudi biocca, 1957: a new parasite for domestic cats? | natural infection with a species of angiostrongylus has been reported only once in wildcats from central italy by biocca in 1957. the causative species of this infection was identified as angiostrongylus chabaudi. following this report, this parasite had never been found in either wild or domestic cats. | 2014 | 25515026 |
| larval development of angiostrongylus chabaudi, the causative agent of feline angiostrongylosis, in the snail cornu aspersum. | nematodes of the angiostrongylidae family, such as angiostrongylus vasorum and angiostrongylus cantonensis, may cause potentially life-threatening diseases in several mammal species. alongside these well-known species, angiostrongylus chabaudi has been recently found affecting the cardiopulmonary system of domestic and wild cats from italy, germany, greece, romania and bulgaria. nonetheless, significant gaps in the understanding of a. chabaudi epidemiology include the lack of information of spec ... | 2017 | 28805181 |