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Volume 8, Number 3, March 2002

Dispatch

Enzootic Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Rats and Snails after an Outbreak of Human Eosinophilic Meningitis, Jamaica

John F. Lindo,* Cecilia Waugh,* John Hall,* Colette Cunningham-Myrie,† Deanna Ashley,† Mark L. Eberhard,‡ James J. Sullivan,‡ Henry S. Bishop,‡ David G. Robinson,§ Timothy Holtz,‡ and Ralph D. Robinson*
*University of the West Indies, Jamaica; †Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; and §Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture, Philadelphia, PA, US

 
 
Figure 1. Adult Angiostrongylus cantonensis recovered from rat lungs.
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Figure 1. Adult Angiostrongylus cantonensis recovered from rat lungs. A. Adult female worm with characteristic barber-pole appearance (anterior end of worm is to the top). Scale bar = 1 mm. B. Tail of adult male, showing copulatory bursa and long spicules (arrows). Scale bar = 85 µm.

 

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