Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018 - PubMed (original) (raw)

Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018

Claudia Paredes-Esquivel et al. Euro Surveill. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

In October 2018, two Atelerix algirus hedgehogs were admitted to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) with signs of acute neurological disease. Necropsy detected immature, fully developed nematodes in the subarachnoid space of both hedgehogs, including a gravid female worm. DNA-based molecular tools confirmed the nematode as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, an important aetiological agent of eosinophilic meningitis in humans. So far this zoonotic parasite in has not been reported in western European wildlife.

Keywords: Angiostrongylus cantonensis; Spain; biosentinel; emerging zoonosis; eosinophilic meningoencephalitis; hedgehogs; lungworms.

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Figures

Figure 1

Ventral view of the brain of a male Atelerix algirus hedgehog, Mallorca, Spain, 2018

Figure 2

Angiostrongylus cantonensis views of (A) copulatory bursa of male specimens supported by bursal rays and (B) a female tail end, Spain, 2018

Figure 3

Neighbour-joining tree based on the sequence from the Cytochrome Oxidase I gene region from three nematode specimens, Spain, 2018

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