“…Clinical symptoms include respiratory signs such as dyspnoea, abdominal breathing, coughing, sneezing and mucopurulent nasal discharge [ 10 , 11 ]. Aelurostrongylus abstrusus infections have been reported in several parts of the world; recently in Greece [ 12 ] and Italy [ 13 ] and also detected in other countries of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) [ 14 ], in the USA [ 15 , 16 ], the Eastern Caribbean [ 17 ], and also in South American wildlife felid species, including jaguarundis ( Puma yagouaroundi ), margay ( Leopardus wiedii ) [ 18 ], and oncilla ( Leopardus tigrinus ) [ 19 ]. All these wild felid species are endemic within diverse regions of Colombia together with the presence of adequate intermediate hosts, which may contribute to A. abstrusus sylvatic life-cycle [ 3 , 20 ].…”