Fascioliasis and other food-borne trematodiases are included in the list of important helminthiases with a great impact on human development. Six plant-borne trematode species have been found to affect humans: Fasciola hepatica, Fasciola gigantica and Fasciolopsis buski (Fasciolidae), Gastrodiscoides hominis (Gastrodiscidae), Watsonius watsoni and Fischoederius elongatus (Paramphistomidae). Whe...

Snail control method is one of the best ways to management fasciolosis. attractant pellets (bait) containing and molluscicide good alternative for Lymnaea acuminata, which a known intermediate host Fasciola gigantica. The result present study find attraction umbelliferone in snail (SAP) against vector different months year. Data shows that active molluscicidal component (umbelliferone) showed m...

Seasonal prevalence of 5 trematode parasites in the 4 snail species, viz. Lymnaea auricularia, L. luteola, Gyraulus convexiusculus and Indoplanorbis exustus for the years 2012–2014 was studied in 3 districts of Uttar Pradesh and in Jabalpur and Ranchi districts of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, respectively. Intramolluscan larval stages of Fasciola gigantica, Explanatum explanatum, Paramphistomu...

the aim of this study was to detect the genotype of fasciola spp. in meshkin-shahr, ardabil province, northwestern iran in different hosts using pcr-rflp.the parasite hosts included cattle, and sheep. overall, 70 adult flukes from livers of slaughtered animals were collected from the abattoirs of aforementioned area. the included 35 samples from infected sheep and 35 samples from 35 infected ca...