Methanol extracts from the leaves and stems of Euphorbia microphylla Linn milii were investigated for their activity against Fasciola gigantica, Taenia solium Pheritima pasthuma, respectively. Five concentrations (10–100mg/ml) each extract studied in bioassay, which involved determination time paralysis death worms. All exhibited con-siderable anthelmintic activities, order sensitivity to worms...

Immunodominant antigens of an approximate molecular mass of 27 kDa (FG 27) were obtained from an excretory-secretory product of adult Fasciola gigantica by a simple continuous-elution method. A dot-ELISA using the FG 27 antigen was developed for the detection of specific antibodies from patients infected with F. gigantica. Control sera were obtained from patients with other parasitic infections...

Fascioliasis is a zoonotic infection caused by Fasciola hepatica or Fasciola gigantica. We report an 87-year-old Korean male patient with postprandial abdominal pain and discomfort due to F. hepatica infection who was diagnosed and managed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with extraction of 2 worms. At his first visit to the hospital, a gallbladder stone was suspected. C...

Background: Fasciolosis is a crucial helminthes disease caused by two trematodes of the genus Fasciola: Fasciola hepatica (temperate liver fluke) and gigantica (tropical fluke). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on cattle sheep in slaughterhouse to detect animals infected with Fasciolosis. Liver samples were collected from transferred laboratory for histopathological immunohistoche...

The aim of this study was to identify Fasciola isolates collected from natural livers of livestock by RFLP and sequencing in southwest of Iran. Morphological examination and biologic characters cannot cause a certainty in the accurate and precise identification and intra and inter-specific differences of Fasciola spp. In this study, we identified Fasciola species using 28S marker in isolates fr...

An adaptation of a previously developed climate forecast computer model and digital agroecologic database resources available from FAO for developing countries were used to develop a geographic information system risk assessment model for fasciolosis in East Africa, a region where both F. hepatica and F. gigantica occur as a cause of major economic losses in livestock. Regional F. hepatica and ...

The current study aimed to find out the morphometric and genotypic divergences of the flukes isolated from different hosts in a newly emerging focus of human fascioliasis in Iran. Adult Fasciola spp. were collected from 34 cattle, 13 sheep, and 11 goats from Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, southwest of Iran. Genomic DNA was extracted from the flukes and PCR-RFLP was used to characterize th...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the genetic diversity of samples identified morphologically as Fasciola spp. from sheep, cattle and goat from Kermanshah Province, western Iran using PCR-RFLP method. METHODS We used PCR-RFLP analysis of ribosomal ITS1 fragment using RsaI restriction enzyme to investigate the genetic characteristics of Fasciola species obtained from different hosts (16 sheep, 28 cattle...