Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018.
- Journal:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Paredes-Esquivel, Claudia et al.
- Affiliation:
- University of the Balearic Islands · Spain
Abstract
In October 2018, twohedgehogs were admitted to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) with signs of acute neurological disease. Necropsy detected immature, fully developed nematodes in the subarachnoid space of both hedgehogs, including a gravid female worm. DNA-based molecular tools confirmed the nematode as, an important aetiological agent of eosinophilic meningitis in humans. So far this zoonotic parasite in has not been reported in western European wildlife.
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