Pathology of naturally acquired Angiostrongylus vasorum infection in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
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...vasorum infection was first reported over twenty years ago in red foxes [16,17] and for quite some time infection was likely confined to this host until recently, when angiostrongylosis has been reported with increasing frequency in dogs [18-20]....
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...In Italy, the long absence of reports after the old cases of infection in foxes (Poli et al. 1991) has been recently terminated by the description of different reports of canine angiostrongylosis from Central/southern Italy (Traversa et al. 2008c; Sasanelli et al. 2008; Di Cesare et al. 2010)....
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...vasorum in dogs and red foxes reportedly can thicken and enlarge the heart (Dodd 1973; Poli et al. 1991; Patteson et al. 1993) and right ventricle (Poli et al....
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...Angiostrongylus vasorum is also thought to infect the diaphragmatic lobes more frequently than the other lobes (Bwangamoi 1974; Poli et al. 1991; Simpson 1996)....
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...The pulmonary arteries may be enlarged and partially occluded, either by adult worms or by extensive fibrosis, causing enlargement of the heart (Mahaffey et al. 1981; Poli et al. 1991; Martin et al. 1993; Jeffery 2002)....
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...vasorum showed conspicuous areas of discoloration and consolidation concentrated at the margins of the infected lobes, a pattern previously noted in both dogs and red foxes (Roche and Kelliher 1986; Poli et al. 1991)....
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