worldwide including iran, fasciola species are the causes of human and animal fasciolosis which have comparatively identical morphologies. the present study is aimed to identify different fasciola forms by using morphologic and morphometric variations from domestic ruminants of northwestern iran. a total of 130, 67 and 140 livers of cattle, water buffaloes and sheep respectively were collected ...

background: fasciola species are parasitic trematode with world wide distribution that infects wild and domesticated herbivores, particularly ruminants. the aim of the present study was to investigate the intra species variations of f. gigantica, from goats and buffalos isolates in two common geographic climates of iran. methods: fasciola species were collected from goat, buffalo, sheep, and ca...

background: the purpose of this comparative study was to detect superoxide dismutase (sod) activities in fasciola hepatica, f. gigantica parasites, infected and healthy liver tissues in order to determine of species effects and liver infection on sods activity level. methods: fasciola spp. parasites and sheep liver tissues (healthy and infected liver tissues), 10 samples for each, were collecte...

Fasciolosis caused by Fasciola gigantica is a neglected tropical disease but a constraint on the growth and productivity of cattle, buffaloes and sheep in the tropical countries of Asia and Africa. Resistance to commonly used anthelmintics in Fasciola has increased the need to search for alternative therapeutic targets. RNA interference is the current tool of choice in the search for such targe...

Nuclear gene markers, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (pepck) and DNA polymerase delta (pold), have been developed for precise discrimination of Fasciola flukes instead of internal transcribed spacer 1. In this study, these two genes of 730 Fasciola flukes from eight Asian countries were analyzed. The results were compared with their mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1) lineages ...

BACKGROUND: Fasciola species are parasitic trematode with world wide distribution that infects wild and domesticated herbivores, particularly ruminants. The aim of the present study was to investigate the intra species variations of F. gigantica, from goats and buffalos isolates in two common geographic climates of Iran. METHODS: Fasciola species were collected from goat, buffalo, sheep, and ca...

The aim of the present work was to investigate the Schistosoma mansoni and Fasciola gigantica cross-reactivity between adult worms and egg homogenates of the parasites. Immunoprophylactic effects of crude Schistosoma mansoni worms and egg antigens mixed with or without saponins extracted from Atriplex nummularia were studied followed by challenge with 80 cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni. Our re...

background : in this study, we used both its1 and its2 for molecular identification of fasciola species. methods : the region between 18s and 28s of ribosomal dna was used in pcr-rflp method for molecular identification of fasciola species. ninety trematodes of fasciola were collected during abattoir inspection from livers of naturally infected sheep and cattle from khorasan, east azerbaijan, a...

background: the study was targeted to report the appearance of coproantigens in feces and circulating antibodies in the serum of fasciola gigantica  experimentally infected rabbits. methods: copro hyper immune serum (his) and excretory-secretory hyper immune serum (es his) antigens were used in a sandwich elisa for the detection of f. gigantica antigens in feces of 12 rabbits experimentally inf...