嗜伊红细胞脑膜炎又称“神经性管元线虫病”,是由血管元线虫(Angiostrogylus Cantonensis)感染神经系统所引起。本病分布在几乎所有太平洋的岛屿及东南亚。这种线虫的成虫生活在鼠的肺动脉内,雌虫产的卵生长为幼虫后到达气管,继而至消化管随排泄物排出体外,幼虫经两次脱壳后感染中间宿主蜗牛或蛞蝓。鼠受沾染是吞食了受感染的软体动物,第三阶段的幼虫到达脑部,于第四周变为成虫,成虫再到肺动脉而继续其生活周期。作者报导在南太平洋塔希提岛(Tahiti)观察到的54例。这个岛上有一种淡水甲壳类名叫“母山羊 Eosinophilic meningitis, also known as “neuritic tube nematodes,” is caused by the infection of the nervous system by Angiostrogacia neisseria. The disease is distributed in almost all Pacific islands and Southeast Asia. Adults of this nematode live in the murine pulmonary artery. The female-born eggs grow into larvae and then reach the trachea. The digestive tract then excretes with the excrement. The larvae infect the intermediate host snails or slugs after two shelling. Infected rats are swallowed infected molluscs, the third phase of larvae reach the brain, in the fourth week into adults, adults and then to the pulmonary artery to continue its life cycle. The authors report 54 cases observed in Tahiti, South Pacific. The island has a freshwater crustacean named "goat