Fasciolosis is disease caused by a liver worm called Fasciola one of the dangerous parasites that affects livestock specially sheep are wide spread in many countries world including some Arab countries. This attacks animals such as cows, buffaloes, camels, horses, donkeys, sheep, goats and rabbits feed on grass plants. The worms inhabit bile ducts humans they multiply all tissues causing damage...

Meat inspection records in abattoirs located in Torbat-e-heidarieh (northeast Iran), from 18 May 2009 to 30 May 2015, were used to determine the prevalence of liver fluke diseases in sheep and cattle in the region. A total of 1004858 livestock including 867015 sheep and 137843 cattle were slaughtered in the 6-year period. Dicrocoeliosis, fasciolosis and hydatidosis were responsible for 2%, 1.92...

fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis are endemic parasitic diseases in middle east especially iran, which making significant economic problems. this retrospective survey has been done to evaluate contamination rate of slaughtered animals with fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis at meisam abattoir, in tehran, iran. in this survey, prevalence rate of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in slaughtered animals in ...

The present study was conducted to compare different diagnostic tests viz., Direct Smear (DS), Agar gel precipitation (AGP), Sedimentation (Sd), and Zinc Sulfate (ZnSO 4 ) flotation for fasciolosis in dairy buffaloes as well as the economic losses due to fasciolosis. A total of 200 faecal samples were examined and DS, AGP, Sd, and ZnSO 4 flotation techniques showed an overall prevalence of 2, 8...

fasciolosis diagnosis, due to low sensitivity of coprological diagnostic method has been challenging for a long period. in this study, dot-elisa, one of the simplest and the most sensitive tests in this regard, was evaluated using excretory-secretory antigens of fasciola hepatica to diagnose human fasciolosis three groups consisting of patients infected with fasciolosis (n= 95), patients with o...

background: fasciolosis is an important health and veterinary problem in iran. the epidemiological pattern of disease has been changed markedly in recent years and there are regions that have potent capacity to be new focus of the disease.  one of these areas is yasuj district in southwest of iran where animal fasciolosis has been quite common. the current study was conducted to determine the s...

fasciolosis, or liver fluke disease, caused by parasites of the genus fasciola is emerging as an important disease in man and animals, in the world and iran, particularly in nortern parts. the economical losses in domestic animals are considerable. in the recent decade there were two major outbreaks of human fasciolosis in the caspian region, northern part of iran with 7000-10000 infected cases...

Food animals are important sources of high quality protein and revenue to man, and can also serve as vehicles for disease transmission. Apart from economic losses, diseased organs in slaughtered cattle can also be sources of epidemiologic and zoonotic threats to man if not detected and controlled. The study was conducted to evaluate the number of cattle slaughtered, prevalence, seasonal variati...