Fasciolosis is a water and food-borne disease caused by the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. This disease is widespread in different parts of the world. Lymnaeidae and Planorbidae snails are the intermediate hosts of these flukes. Snail population management is a good tool to control fasciolosis because gastropods represent the weakest link in the life-cycle of trematodes. ...

Background: Fasciolosis is a global parasitic disease caused by liver trematodes such as Fasciola hepatica, affecting various mammals, including sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, and humans worldwide. Cathepsin L (Cat L) found in the life stages of F. gigantica associated with pathology fluke. Given detrimental impact fasciolosis on animal health production, along reports drug resistance concerns reg...

Adrien M.L., Schild A.L., Marcolongo-Pereira C., Fiss.L., Ruas J.L., Grecco F.B. & Raffi M.B. 2013. Acute fasciolosis in cattle in southern Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 33(6):705-709. Laboratório Regional de Diagnóstico, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Campus Universitário s/n, Pelotas, RS 96010-900, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] This study describe...

A retrospective study covering a period of ten years (2001-2010) was conducted using postmortem meat inspection records of the Department of Veterinary Services in Gaborone to determine the prevalence of bovine fasciolosis in Botswana. Meat inspection records of monthly and annual returns from the two main export abattoirs in the country were examined, as well as the data collected on the total...

Background and Aim: Bovine fasciolosis is a reemerging neglected disease with worldwide distribution caused by the trematode Fasciola spp., which parasitize various hosts. responsible for large economic losses in bovine livestock sector. This study aimed to estimate seroprevalence risk factors of municipalities Colombia. Materials Methods: was descriptive cross-sectional simple random sampling ...

Fasciolosis is a disease caused by Fasciola gigantica (Cobbold, 1855) or hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) that infected ruminants and liver damaged loss of productivity. To control in cattle, it necessary to consider differences the prevalence number cases various cattle breed. This research was conducted two slaughterhouses Batu Pujon District, Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia involving 50 livest...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to evaluate and compare a fast-ELISA (F-ELISA) method versus standard-ELISA (S-ELISA) to diagnose human fasciolosis. METHODS Serum samples were obtained from 35 individuals infected with fasciolosis, 27 infected with other parasitoses and 22 from healthy people. The samples were examined with S-ELISA (30-minute incubation periods) and F-ELISA (10-min...

A retrospective study was carried out over a 10- to 12-year period to analyse the changes in prevalences of natural fasciolosis and paramphistomosis among cattle and snails in central France, and to determine the causes which had induced these changes. The prevalences of natural fasciolosis in cattle increased from 1990 to 1993 (13.6% to 25.2%) and diminished afterwards up to 1999 (at 12.6%). T...

The liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica (F. hepatica), is a common parasite of ruminants in many countries in the temperate climates and often causes important production losses in infected animals [1, 9, 11, 14, 29, 39]. Natural fasciolosis in sheep develops clinical manifestations of acute, subacute and chronic infection according to numbers of metacercaria ingested in a period of time [1, 4, 11, ...