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In this study, two cases of EM were found to have been caused by infection with <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> due to consumption of raw centipedes. To survey the <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> infections acquired through centipedes that the patients had bought at a vegetable market, we performed etiological examinations and polymerase chain reaction amplification of <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> genes. Third-instar larvae of <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> were detected in the centipedes, and specific genes from <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> were detected in all the specimens. This indicates that the centipede may act as a competent host for the transmission of <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic>. To our knowledge, this is the first report of <jats:italic>A. cantonensis<\/jats:italic> infection through the consumption of centipedes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.18-0151","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,31]],"date-time":"2018-07-31T07:00:54Z","timestamp":1533020454000},"page":"743-748","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Eating Centipedes Can Result in Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection: Two Case Reports and Pathogen Investigation"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"99","author":[{"given":"Huijie","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathogen Biology and Experimental Teaching Centre of Preventive Medicine, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Key Laboratory for Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 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