Aelurostrongylus abstrusus

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Angiostrongylidae
Genus:	Aelurostrongylus
Species:	A. abstrusus
Binomial name
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (Railliet, 1898)

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is a species of nematode from the family Angiostrongylidae. ^[1]

Hosts

Intermediate hosts include:

• land snail Achatina fulica ^[1]
• land snail Thelidomus aspera ^[2]
• garden snail Cornu aspersum

Final hosts include:

• cats (family Felidae) ^[3]

References

1. Ohlweiler, F. P.; Guimarães, M. C. D. A.; Takahashi, F. Y.; Eduardo, J. M. (2010). "Current distribution of Achatina fulica, in the State of São Paulo including records of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (Nematoda) larvae infestation". Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo. 52 (4): 211–214. doi: 10.1590/S0036-46652010000400009 . PMID   21748230. PDF Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine .
2. Lindo, J. F.; Waugh, C.; Hall, J.; Cunningham-Myrie, C.; Ashley, D.; Eberhard, M. L.; Sullivan, J. J.; Bishop, H. S.; Robinson, D. G.; Holtz, T.; Robinson, R. D. (2002). "Enzootic Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Rats and Snails after an Outbreak of Human Eosinophilic Meningitis, Jamaica". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 8 (3): 324–326. doi:10.3201/eid0803.010316. PMC   2732477 . PMID   11927033.
3. Jefferies, R.; Vrhovec, M. G.; Wallner, N.; Catalan, D. R. (2010). "Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus sp. (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea) infections in cats inhabiting Ibiza, Spain". Veterinary Parasitology. 173 (3–4): 344–348. doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.06.032. PMID   20674179.

Bibliography

• Studzińska, M. B., Demkowska-Kutrzepa, M., Komsta, R., Tomczuk, K., Kruczek, A., Junkuszew, A., & Dudko, P. (2017). Aelurostrongylus abstrusus - The Cause of Respiratory Disease. Medycyna Weterynaryjna, 73(11), 739–742. https://doi.org/10.21521/mw.5793.
• Morelli, S., Colombo, M., Diakou, A., Traversa, D., Grillini, M., Frangipane di Regalbono, A., & Di Cesare, A. (2021). The Influence of Temperature on the Larval Development of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in the Land Snail Cornu aspersum. Pathogens, 10(8), 960. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10080960.

Further reading

• Ash, L. R. (1970). "Diagnostic morphology of the third-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Angiostrongylus vasorum, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, and Anafilaroides rostratus (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea)". The Journal of Parasitology. 56 (2): 249–253. doi:10.2307/3277651. JSTOR   3277651. PMID   5445821.