Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Angiostrongyliasis cantonensis is a common helminth migration disease in China, and it is a zoonotic disease. The pathogen is the early (sexual immature) stage of angiostrongylus cantonensis larva or adult. Angiostrongylus cantonensis invades the heart, brain, lung and other parts, especially the central nervous system infection, which is common, causing fever, headache, vomiting, convulsions, coma and other eosinophilic meningoencephalitis or meningitis. Angiostrongylus cantonensis was first discovered by Chinese professor Chen Xintao in Guangdong house rats and brown house rats, and was named Guangzhou pulmonary nematode (pulmonema cantonensis). It was later reported by Matsumoto in Taiwan, China in 1937, and it was officially named D. canerensis by Dougherty in 1946.

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