Release of lungworm larvae from snails in the environment: potential for alternative transmission pathways.

• Main Authors: Alessio Giannelli (Author), Vito Colella (Author), Francesca Abramo (Author), Rafael Antonio do Nascimento Ramos (Author), Luigi Falsone (Author), Emanuele Brianti (Author), Antonio Varcasia (Author), Filipe Dantas-Torres (Author), Martin Knaus (Author), Mark T Fox (Author), Domenico Otranto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

BACKGROUND:Gastropod-borne parasites may cause debilitating clinical conditions in animals and humans following the consumption of infected intermediate or paratenic hosts. However, the ingestion of fresh vegetables contaminated by snail mucus and/or water has also been proposed as a source of the i...