Gurltia paralysans

Gurltia paralysans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Secernentea
Order:	Rhabditida
Suborder:	Strongylida
Superfamily:	Metastrongyloidea
Family:	Angiostrongylidae
Genus:	Gurltia
Species:	G. paralysans
Binomial name
	Gurltia paralysans; (Wolffhügel, 1933)

Last updated July 19, 2025

Gurltia paralysans is a parasite which attaches itself to the leptomeningeal veins of South American felines ^[1]^[2]

The genus name comes from Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794–1882), a German veterinarian and anatomist.

References

↑ Bowman, Dwight D. (4 Nov 2008). Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians (9nt ed.). Saunders. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-4160-4412-3.
↑ Gurltia paralysans (Wolffhügel, 1933): description of adults and additional case reports of neurological diseases in three domestic cats from southern Chile. Moroni M, Muñoz P, Gómez M, Mieres M, Rojas M, Lillo C, Aguirre F, Acosta-Jamett G, Kaiser M and Lindsay DS, Vet Parasitol., 23 MArch 2012, volume 184, issues 2–4, pages 377–380, doi : 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.08.035

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[Dwight_D._Bowman-1] Bowman, Dwight D. (4 Nov 2008). Georgis' Parasitology for Veterinarians (9nt ed.). Saunders. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-4160-4412-3.

[2] Gurltia paralysans (Wolffhügel, 1933): description of adults and additional case reports of neurological diseases in three domestic cats from southern Chile. Moroni M, Muñoz P, Gómez M, Mieres M, Rojas M, Lillo C, Aguirre F, Acosta-Jamett G, Kaiser M and Lindsay DS, Vet Parasitol., 23 MArch 2012, volume 184, issues 2–4, pages 377–380, doi : 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.08.035

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