Volume 17, Number 7—July 2011
Letter
Enzootic Angiostrongyliasis, Guangdong, China, 2008–2009
Zhen-Yu Qu, Xiao Yang, Mei Cheng, Yan-Feng Lin, Xiao-Ming Liu, Ai He, Zhong-Dao Wu, and Xi-Mei Zhan
Table
Prevalence of infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis in 3 snail species and rodents in 3 counties in Qingyuan, Guangdong Province, China, 2008–2009
| County | Host species, no. positive/no. tested (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pomacea canaliculata | Achatina fulica | Bradybaena despecta | Rodents | |
| Qingxin | 12/135 (8.9) | 0/32 (0) | 3/41 (7.3) | 22/137 (16.1) |
| Fogang | 0/9 (0) | 6/152 (3.9) | 0/19 (0) | 2/117 (1.7) |
| Lianzhou | Not found | 0/122 (0) | Not found | 3/34 (8.8) |
| Total | 12/144 (8.3) | 6/306 (2.0) | 3/60 (5.0) | 27/288 (9.4) |
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
