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Parasitological analyses of 297<jats:italic>Rattus rattus<\/jats:italic>and 140<jats:italic>Rattus norvegicus<\/jats:italic>, and 777 terrestrial molluscs from all 14 Parishes on the island revealed<jats:italic>Angiostrongylus cantonensis<\/jats:italic>in 32\u00b70% of the rats and in 12\u00b75% of the molluscs. Multivariate analyses confirmed that<jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic>occurred significantly more frequently in<jats:italic>R. rattus<\/jats:italic>(Odds Ratio [OR] = 1\u00b776), while mean infection intensity in<jats:italic>R. rattus<\/jats:italic>was also significantly higher (16\u00b78) than<jats:italic>R. norvegicus<\/jats:italic>(11\u00b73) (Mann\u2013Whitney<jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>-test:<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0\u00b701). Third-stage larvae of<jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic>were detected in 29% of 86<jats:italic>Pleurodonte<\/jats:italic>spp.; in 20% of five<jats:italic>Poteria<\/jats:italic>spp.; in 18\u00b77% of 369<jats:italic>Thelidomus asper<\/jats:italic>; in 11% of 18<jats:italic>Sagda<\/jats:italic>spp.; and in 6% of 24 veronicellid slugs. Most rodent infections occurred in Northeastern Jamaica (OR = 11\u00b766), a region where infected molluscs were also abundant. 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