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Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
Research Letter

Autochthonous Angiostrongylus cantonensis Lungworms in Urban Rats, Valencia, Spain, 2021

María Teresa Galán-Puchades1Comments to Author , Mercedes Gómez-Samblás1, Antonio Osuna, Sandra Sáez-Durán, Rubén Bueno-Marí, and Màrius V. Fuentes
Author affiliations: University of Valencia, Burjassot-Valencia, Spain (M.T. Galán-Puchades, S. Sáez-Durán, R. Bueno-Marí, M.V. Fuentes); University of Granada, Granada, Spain (M. Gómez-Samblás, A. Osuna); Laboratorios Lokímica, Catarroja-Valencia, Spain (R. Bueno-Marí)

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Table

Measurements of 4 Angiostrongylus cantonensis male lungworms collected from rats trapped in Valencia, Spain, 2021*

Morphologic character Range, mm Mean, mm
Total length 14.08–21.08 17.21
Maximum width 0.25–0.38 0.28
Esophagus length 0.29–0.36 0.32
Esophagus maximum width 0.07–0.09 0.08
Distance from excretory pore to cephalic extremity 0.38–0.47 0.41
Spicules length 1.14–1.27 1.21
Gubernaculum length 0.10–0.13 0.11

*one from Rattus norvegicus and 3 from R. rattus rats.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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