The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)

The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)

The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals....

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Main Authors: Davidson, Rebecca K, Handeland, Kjell, Gjerde, Bjørn
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2006
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1553464/
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spelling pubmed-15534642006-08-25 The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles) Davidson, Rebecca K Handeland, Kjell Gjerde, Bjørn Brief Communication The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals. The first stage larvae (L1) closely resembled, in size and morphology, those of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Baillet 1866). The diagnosis for both A. falciformis and A. vasorum is frequently based on the identification of L1 in faeces or sputum. The potential for misclassification of an A. falciformis infection as A. vasorum, where larval identification is the only diagnostic method used, is discussed. BioMed Central 2006-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1553464/ /pubmed/16987402 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1751-0147-48-6 Text en Copyright © 2006 Davidson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Davidson, Rebecca K
Handeland, Kjell
Gjerde, Bjørn
spellingShingle Davidson, Rebecca K
Handeland, Kjell
Gjerde, Bjørn
The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
author_facet Davidson, Rebecca K
Handeland, Kjell
Gjerde, Bjørn
author_sort Davidson, Rebecca K
title The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
title_short The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
title_full The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
title_fullStr The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
title_full_unstemmed The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in Norwegian badgers (Meles meles)
title_sort first report of aelurostrongylus falciformis in norwegian badgers (meles meles)
description The first report of Aelurostrongylus falciformis (Schlegel 1933) in Fennoscandian badgers is described. Routine parasitological examination of nine Norwegian badgers, at the National Veterinary Institute during 2004 and 2005, identified A. falciformis in the terminal airways of five of the animals. The first stage larvae (L1) closely resembled, in size and morphology, those of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Baillet 1866). The diagnosis for both A. falciformis and A. vasorum is frequently based on the identification of L1 in faeces or sputum. The potential for misclassification of an A. falciformis infection as A. vasorum, where larval identification is the only diagnostic method used, is discussed.
publisher BioMed Central
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