BACKGROUND Fascioliasis caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica is a foodborne and waterborne zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution. The illness occurs in regions with intensive sheep or cattle production. In some parts of Iran the incidence of human infection has increased over the past decades. Since Chaharmahal and Bakhtiyari Province has been known as a main pole of traditiona...

Gangguan penyakit pada ternak merupakan salah satu hambatan yang di hadapi dalam pengembangan peternakan. Di antara ini satunya adalah disebabkan oleh parasit cacing hati Fasciola spp. dikenal dengan nama Distomatosis, atau Fasciolosis. Diketahui telah ditemukanya F. intermedia dikarakterisasi berdasarkan morfologinya. Cacing ditemukan Pakistan dan Iran, hasil analisis gigantica dari memiliki k...

Gastrointestinal parasites, such as helminths and protozoa, are abundant parasitic agents of livestock, particularly ruminants. The current study aims to determine the prevalence rate infections in large ruminate animals slaughtered mechanical abattoir Alexandria governorate, Egypt. was identified through records detected fecal matter addition recorded postmortem examination findings. Three hun...

Acute human fascioliasis depends in its diagnosis on detecting specific antibodies in the sera of patients. It was observed that both somatic fraction I and crude E/S products of adult Fasciola gigantica worm gave sensitive and specific results. Using IgM ELISA, the cut off O.D was 0.6 and 0.3 nm. and the accuracy was 93% and 98% for the two antigens respectively. Determination of the molecular...

the liver fluke, fasciola hepatica, is considered as the most common cause of fasciolosis in both domestic livestock and human. this study was carried out to detect the prevalence of the larval stages of f. hepatica in the snails galba truncatula and lymnaea stagnalis in west azarbaijan, iran. snail collection was performed through searching 28 freshwater habitats from may to december 2010. fol...

SUHARDONO and D.B. COPEMAN 2000. Population dinamics of Lymnaea rubiginosa in rice fields and its infection with larvae of trematodes. Jurnal Ilmu Ternak dan Veteriner 5(4): 241-249. Field of irrigated rice paddy was the most suitable habitat as breeding site of snail Lymnaea rubiginosa, the intermadiate host of Fasciola gigantica and other trematodes. Fluctuations in the population of fresh wa...

background: to identify the fasciolid species by morphometric and molecular methods in zanjan, north­west of iran. methods : adult fasciola worms (n=584) were obtained from cattle and sheep in zanjan slaughterhouse in 2007. living flukes were washed, then worms' images were taken by 3ccd camera and finally apical zone of each worm was obtained. morphometric values such as body length, body widt...

Fasciolosis caused by Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica is one of the major public health problems in the world and in Iran. Considering that stool examination for Fasciola eggs is not a sensitive method and immunodiagnosis methods are more applicable for this purpose, so the present study was conducted to compare the somatic (S) and cysteine proteinase (CP) antigens of F. gigantica in I...