Hurdles in the evolutionary epidemiology of #Angiostrongylus cantonensis#: Pseudogenes, incongruence between taxonomy and DNA sequence variants, and cryptic lineages

Dusitsittipon S., Criscione C.D., Morand S., Komalamisra C., Thaenkham U.
2018

Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the rat lungworm, is a zoonotic pathogen that is one of the leading causes of eosinophilic meningitis worldwide. This parasite is regarded as an emerging pathogen with a global range expansion out of southeastern Asia post?WWII. To date, molecular systematic/phylogeographic studies on A. cantonensis have mainly used two mitochondrial (mtDNA) markers, cytochrome c ...

Maladies des animaux; Autres thèmes