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Achatina

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Achatina /Ach·a·ti·na/ (ak?ah-ti´nah) a genus of very large land snails, including A. fuli´ca, which serves as an intermediate host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis.
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(4) reported finding no larvae in body fluid washed from 23 Achatina fulica that were infected with A.
Angiostrongyliasis, mainland China by Lun, Zhao-Rong / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The basic form is a ring-shaped cushion of vegetable materials, a little gourd, an Achatina shell, or a wooden figurine.
Nkanu and Mbeko art and ritual by Van Damme-Linseele, Annemieke / African Arts
cantonensis has, in some instances, been linked to the introduction of the African giant land snail, Achatina fulica (5).
Parastrongylus cantonensis in a nonhuman primate, Florida by de Lahunta, Alexander / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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