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Insights on Spirocerca lupi, the Carcinogenic Dog Nematode.
Trends in parasitology - 1 Jan 2020
Rojas Alicia, Dvir Eran, Baneth Gad
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Spirocerca lupi is a nematode transmitted by dung beetles that infects domestic and wild canids in tropical and subtropical regions and is associated with neoplasia. It produces a distinctive pathology with the formation of esophageal nodules classified as inflammatory, preneoplastic, or neoplastic with metastasis to distant organs. Aberrant central nervous system migration of this nematode is also responsible...
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