Volume 8, Number 3—March 2002
Dispatch
Enzootic Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Rats and Snails after an Outbreak of Human Eosinophilic Meningitis, Jamaica
Table
Recovery of Angiostrongylus cantonensis from rats and snails, Jamaica, 2000
Location | Host | No. infected/no. examined (%) |
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Rats | ||
Freeport | Rattus norvegicus R.rattus | 6/10 (60) 0/0 |
Mandeville | R. norvegicus R. rattus | 10/17 (59) 0/0 |
Black River | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 2/11 (18) 1/4 (25) |
Kingston | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 1/12 (8) 1/11 (9) |
Lucea | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 1/15 (7) 0/0 |
Montego Bay | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 0/0 1/12 (8) |
Port Antonio | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 0/8 0/3 |
Lime Hall | R. norvegicus R.rattus | 0/1 1/1 (100) |
Snails | ||
Mandeville | Thelidomus asper | 4/10 (40) |
Brown’s Town | Orthalicus jamaicensis Dentellaria sloaneana | 0/27 0/2 |
Yallahs | Orthalicus jamaicensis | 0/6 |
Scott’s Pass | Orthalicus jamaicensis | 0/3 |