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After euthanasia, necropsy and histopathological examination were carried out and revealed intracerebral nematode larvae. The morphology of these larvae strongly suggests them to be Baylisascaris procyonis, a parasite of raccoons. The extended history revealed that a fully grown raccoon was living within farm enclosures, suggesting an infection of the alpaca and the development of a cerebrospinal larva migrans. This zoonotic disease is characterized by aberrant larval migration that typically shows extraintestinal migration in dead-end hosts. 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