Publications
| angiostrongylus vasorum infection in red foxes (vulpes vulpes) in southern italy. | angiostrongylus vasorum (nematoda: angiostrongylidae) infection was detected at post-mortem examination in the pulmonary arteries and hearts of 34/102 (33,3%) of red foxes (vulpes vulpes) from the campania region in southern italy. pathological changes consisted of granulomatous interstitial pneumonia caused by larvae and intravascular pulmonary adult nematodes. these changes confirm that angiostrongylosis infection in red foxes has a mainly chronic course, in which the infected host may dispers ... | 2015 | 26204007 |
| dirofilaria immitis and angiostrongylus vasorum: the contemporaneous detection in kennels. | the cardiopulmonary nematodes dirofilaria immitis and angiostrongylus vasorum are increasingly reported in dogs and are responsible for two diseases with overlapping endemic areas, especially in europe: dirofilariosis and angiostrongylosis. the reasons for their apparent emergence are unknown, but several factors (e.g. increased disease awareness, better diagnostic tools, climatic changes, seasonal population dynamics and movements of animals) may play a role in the recent rise in reports of inf ... | 2015 | 26689960 |