To the Editor: Human fascioliasis, infection with Fasciola spp. flukes, is highly pathogenic in both acute and chronic phases and can result in death (1). This disease has been recently emerging, in part linked to climate and global changes (2). Human Fasciola infection has been reported in 5 continents and is related to the disease’s wide spread in livestock. Guilan Province in northern Iran i...

Even though in some reputable references, praziquantel is still.a drug of choice for treatment of fascioliasis, but our study on 100 patients shows that it has no effect on the parasite.

Abstract Fascioliasis is a freshwater snail-borne zoonotic disease. The Northern Bolivian Altiplano very high altitude endemic area where the highest human prevalences and intensities have been reported. Preventive chemotherapy by treatment campaigns yearly applied. However, liver fluke infection of cattle, sheep, pigs donkeys assures endemicity consequent re-infection risks. A One Health actio...

The antigenicity of ether-delipidized Taenia solium metacestode extract (DLPAg) was investigated by IgG-ELISA. The antigen showed higher antigenicity than that of non-delipidized antigen (NDLPAg). Then the DLPAg was subjected to Sephacryl S-200 gel chromatography and a partially purified antigen (DLPP1Ag) was identified as the promised antigen by IgG-ELISA using 25 sera from cysticercosis cases...

Among climate change impact on human health, the effects on children living in poor rural areas of developing countries pose a series of question marks and risks related to climate-induced modifications of incidence, prevalence, intensity and geographical distribution of infectious diseases. Parasitic diseases are highly susceptible to climatic variables due to their transmission following the ...