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Volume 31, Number 9—September 2025

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Detection of Rat Lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) in Rats and Gastropods, Italy

Divakaran Pandian1, Anna Šipková1, Stefano Scarcelli1, Giovanni Sgroi, Jana Kačmaříková, Francesco Buono, Elisa Castaldo, Nicola D’Alessio, Barbora Červená, Vincenzo Veneziano, and David ModrýComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (D. Pandian, D. Modrý); Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Brno, Czech Republic (A. Šipková, D. Modrý); University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (S. Scarcelli, F. Buono, E. Castaldo, V. Veneziano); Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Southern Italy, Portici, Italy (G. Sgroi, N. D’Alessio); University of Veterinary Sciences Brno, Brno (J. Kačmaříková, B. Červená); Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno (J. Kačmaříková, B. Červená); Biology Center of Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic (D. Modrý)

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Table

Summary of rat and gastropod samples positive for rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), Italy

Location no. Municipality (quarter) Rats
 Gastropods
 GenBank accession no.
No. positive/total no. Haplotype No. positive/total no. Haplotype
1
 Naples (Porto)
 1/1
 NAP1
0/15
 –
 PV425925
2
 Naples (San Carlo all'Arena)
 0/1
 –
0/61
 –
 –
3
 Naples (Vomero)
 1/3
 NAP2
0/0
 –
 PV425926
4
 Naples (Posillipo)
 0/2
 –
0/0
 –
 –
5
 Naples (Fuorigrotta)
 0/1
 –
0/0
 –
 –
6
 Naples (Camaldoli)
 11/13
 NAP1
7/73
 NAP1
 PV425925
7
 Marano di Napoli
 0/0
 –
0/25
 –
 –
8
 Casandrino
 0/1
 –
0/0
 –
 –
9
 Casalnuovo di Napoli
 0/0
 –
0/12
 –
 –
10
 Ercolano
 0/1
 –
0/0
 –
 –
11
 Lauro
 0/0
 –
0/25
 –
 –
12
 Corbara
 0/4
 –
1/76
 †
 –
13
 Nocera Inferiore
 0/0
 –
0/51
 –
 –
14
 Giffoni Valle Piana
 0/0
 –
0/14
 –
 –
15 Laureana Cilento 0/5 – 0/0 – –

*Location numbers correspond to numbers in Figure 1. Detailed information on species and georeferenced data on sampled locations provided in Appendix 1 Table. ­–, no positive samples. †Failed sequencing.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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