Resumen de Selected highlights from other journals: Mucus and water as a transmission source for feline lungworm
A. Giannelli, V. Colella, F. Abramo, Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos, L. Falsone, E. Brianti
GASTROPOD-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in both animals and people when the infected intermediate or paratenic hosts are ingested. Gastropod mucus and water have been suspected as a source of infection for some zoonotic metastrongyloids. The feline lungworms Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Trichostrongylus brevior have been increasing in cat populations; the epidemiology is poorly understood but gastropods have been suspected as being a factor. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of alternative transmission pathways for A abstrusus and T brevior, via the mucus of infected Helix aspersa snails and the water where snails die.
