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Fig. 2 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 2

From: Abdominal angiostrongyliasis in the Americas: fifty years since the discovery of a new metastrongylid species, Angiostrongylus costaricensis

Fig. 2

Geographical distribution of Angiostrongylus costaricensis in the Americas. This parasite has been detected in North and Central America in the USA (Los Angeles, Miami, Texas) [11, 53], Mexico (not specified in which location) [13], Guatemala (Chiquimula, Ciudad de Guatemala, El Progreso, Guastatoya, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Suchitepequez) [41], Honduras (Comayagua, Cortés, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, Olancho) [45], El Salvador (not specified), Nicaragua (León) [17, 62], Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Heredia, Limón, Puntarenas, San José) [37], and Panama (not specified) [18]. In South America, A. costaricensis has been reported in Colombia (Caquetá, Huila, Putumayo, Tolima, Valle, Vaupés) [19], Venezuela (not specified) [20], Ecuador (Guayaquil) [22], Perú (Iquitos) [21], Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana, São Paulo, Brasília, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo) [68, 86], and Argentina (Misiones, Tucumán) [24]. Angiostrongylus costaricensis has been found in several geographical locations in the Caribbean, including Cuba [25], Guadeloupe [29], Haiti [28], Martinique [27], and the Dominican Republic [26]. Finally, rare cases have been detected in Spain [35] and Zaire [32]. This figure was created using mapchart.net

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