More than one specimen may need to be examined to find the parasite. It affects humans, but its main host is ruminants such as cattle and sheep. The disease caused by the fluke is called fasciolosis or fascioliasis, which is a type of helminthiasis and has been classified as a neglected. Abstract fasciolasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the digenean trematode fasciola hepatica. Sedimentation technique foreyt, 2005 for quantitative. Pdf fascioliasis, revision clinicoepidemiologica y diagnostico. Fascioliasis, revision clinicoepidemiologica y diagnostico. During the chronic phase of the disease the parasites invade the main biliary ducts, causing obstructive jaundice. The disease is a plantborne trematode zoonosis, and is classified as a neglected tropical disease ntd. This is usually done by finding fasciola eggs in stool fecal specimens examined under a microscope. The standard way to be sure a person is infected with fasciola is by seeing the parasite.
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The fasciolosis is a parasitic infection caused by tremadotes of fasciola genre and the more frequent species is fasciola hepatica which is distributed in all continents and to infecting many. Fasciolose ou fascioliase causas, sintomas, tratamento. Habitata parasite of herbivorous anim als sheep,goat and cattle, living in. The trematodes fasciola hepatica also known as the common liver fluke or the sheep liver fluke and fasciola gigantica are large liver flukes f. Diagnostico e medidas preventivas araldi, daniele f. Fasciolosis is a parasitic worm infection caused by the common liver fluke fasciola hepatica as well as by fasciola gigantica. Fasciola hepatica, also known as the common liver fluke or sheep liver fluke, is a parasitic trematode fluke or flatworm, a type of helminth of the class trematoda, phylum platyhelminthes. Habit and habitat of fasciola hepatica structure of fasciola hepatica. Fasciola hepatica, patogenia, epidemiologia, diagnostico, tratamiento. Human fasciolosis, sheep fasciolosis, fasciola hepatica. Fasciola hepatica is a trematode parasite in the same family as schistosomes and shares crossreactive antigens with schistosomes. Fasciola hepatica the common names are the sheep liver fluke and the common liver fluke.
Lopezvillacis isabel cristina, artiedarojas jorge rodrigo, meraandrade rafael isaias, munozespinoza manolo sebastian, riveraguerra veronica elizabeth, cuadradoguevara andrea camila, zuritavasquez jose hernan, monterorecalde mayra andrea. Fasciolosis, in its chronic phase, can cause biliary obstructive jaundice so the. In this article we will discuss about fasciola hepatica. It infects the livers of various mammals, including humans. Fasciola hepatica, pathoge nesis, epidemiology, diagnosis.
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