<i>Fascioliasis hepatica</i> is a rare parasitic infection affecting the hepatobiliary system. On imaging examination, it presents as multiple hepatic abscesses and bile duct dilatation. Extrahepatic fascioliasis of gastrointestinal tract condition, resulting from duodenal migration fasciola flukes. The current case showed both colonic masses, mimicking colon cancer with metastasis....

Fasciola hepatica, the aetiological agent of fascioliasis in the Caribbean region, occurs throughout the major islands of the Greater Antilles and in localised zones on two islands (Martinique and Saint Lucia) of the Lesser Antilles. However, apart from Puerto Rico, information regarding human fascioliasis in islands of the Caribbean is out of date or unavailable, or even nonexistent as in Hait...

Triclabendazole is reported to be highly effective in treatment of human fascioliasis. We present 7 of 19 selected cases of human fascioliasis referred to our center in the Cusco region of Peru that failed to respond to triclabendazole. These were mostly symptomatic adults of both sexes that continued passing Fasciola eggs in the stool despite multiple treatments with 2 doses of triclabendazole...

BACKGROUND The significant increase in the number of human subcutaneous dirofilariasis in recent years, suggests the appearance of a new health problem in the old world with most cases reported from Mediterranean countries. Besides the present case, eleven cases of human subcutaneous dirofilariasis have been detected in Iran, three of which belong to Gilan Province, northern Iran. METHODS We ...

Coprological examination based on egg detection in stool samples is currently used as the gold standard for the diagnosis of human fascioliasis. However, this method is not effective during the acute phase of the disease and has poor sensitivity during the chronic phase. Serodiagnosis has become an excellent alternative to coprological examination in efforts to combat the effects of fascioliasi...

Fascioliasis, a zoonotic disease of domestic herbivorous animals such as sheep, cattle and goats, which are the definitive hosts, is caused by infection with the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica. Humans become infected by eating uncooked, and usually unwashed, aquatic vegetables on which larval parasites are encysted. Although animals can support enormous worm burdens without developing serious d...