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Aelurostrongylus

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Aelurostrongylus
a genus of lungworm of the family Angiostrongylidae; cause chronic cough and weight loss. Includes A. abstrusus (cat), A. falciformis (badger), A. pridhami (wild mink).
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Larva of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus.By permission from Nelson RW, Couto CG, Small Animal Internal Medicine, Mosby, 2003


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Most larvae were Angiostrongylus cantonensis (375 to 420 [mean 402] [micro]m in length after fixation in hot alcohol), but a small number of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (400 to 440 [mean 427] [micro]m in length after fixation in hot alcohol), a lungworm of cats, were also observed.
 
 
 
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