Mice as paratenic hosts of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several species of nematodes included in the superfamily Metastrongyloidea are recognized agents of parasitic infections in felines. Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is the most prevalent species affecting the respiratory system of domestic cats. The route of infection in cats is supposed to be through ingestion of gastropod intermediate or paratenic hosts. However, because gastropods are not the preferred preys of cats, rodents were suggested to play an important role as paratenic hosts in the biological cycle of A. abstrusus and in the epidemiology of aelurostrongylosis.

Results

Two studies were conducted to document histopathological tissue lesions in mice experimentally infected with A. abstrusus third-stage larvae (L3) (Study 1), and to determine larval counts in t

SUBMITTER: Colella V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343334 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature