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Life cycle of Angiostrongylus cantonensis

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ID: 78038
Title: Life cycle of Angiostrong…
Category: Labeled - Jong Infectious Diseases 2E

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Netter's Infectious Diseases
Author:Elaine Jong
Chapter:Neuroangiostrongyliasis (Rat Lungworm Di…
Page:562

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(transport) hosts such
10. Ingestion of food
11. In humans, L3
2. L1 larvae migrate to the
3. L1 larvae are ingested by slugs and
4. Rats become infected by eating slugs and snails containi
5. L3 larvae in slugs and
6. Infected slugs, snails and
7. Rats may also become
8. Humans (accidental hosts) are infected by
9. Ingestion of raw or
and blended vegetable drinks.
arteries.
as freshwater shrimps,
atworms may contaminate
atworms, land crabs,
being able to migrate
by slugs or snails, for
cause eosinophilic
cord molt twice and
develop into L5
eaten by paratenic
eggs that are carried to the lungs where they
encephalitis,
example, unwashed
excreted in rat feces.
frogs.
fruits, and blended
green leafy vegetables,
hatch to release rst stage (L1) larvae.
heart, and lungs as
hosts containing L3 larvae.
infected by eating paratenic
ingestion (intentionally or unintentionally) of
into adult worms and
larvae migrate
leafy green vegetables, fruits
meningitis,
monitor lizards, and
paratenic hosts.
products contaminated
rats (denitive hosts). Female worms produce
raw or undercooked slugs or snails
snails (intermediate hosts) and molt twice
snails may also be
sub-adults. They may
that migrate through the wall of the intestine and are carr
the brain and spinal
the CNS. L3 larvae in
They are usually
they attempt to reach
they migrate to the pulmonary arteries where they mature to
through the intestinal
through the liver,
to become third stage L3 larvae.
to the pulmonary
trachea, are swallowed and
twice to become fth stage (L5) subadult worms. As subadult
typically die before
unable to develop
undercooked, infected
vegetable juices.
vessels to the central nervous system (CNS). In the brain,
wall and pass
1. Adult worms live in the pulmonary arteries of

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