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Seek, and you will find: Cryptic diversity of the cardiopulmonary nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum in the Americas.
Acta tropica - 1 Oct 2024
Robleto-Quesada Joby, Umaña-Blanco Fabián, Solano-Barquero Alberto, Allen Jennifer, Levi Taal, Gori Francesca, Schnyder Manuela, Rojas Alicia
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Angiostrongylus vasorum is a metastrongylid parasite infecting wild canids and domestic dogs. Its patchy distribution, high pathogenicity and taxonomical classification makes the evolutionary history of A. vasorum intriguing and important to study. First larval stages of A. vasorum were recovered from feces of two grey foxes, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, from Costa Rica. Sequencing and phylogenetic and haplotypic...
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