All cases of biliary liver fluke infection over a 6-year period were retrospectively investigated at a clinic serving international patients, to determine the prevalence and risk factors for infection in a nonendemic area. Cases were identified through review of stool ova and parasite (O&P) ...
fluke: n. 1.【动物;动物学】比目鱼,鲽形目的鱼。 2.肝蛭 ... flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans同义词:Fasciola hepatica, 例句与用法 1. Liver flukes are flat and about 1 to 2 cm long . they live in the human liver and their eggs are passed ou...
Accurate diagnosis of liver fluke infections in both human and other mammalian, snail and fish intermediate hosts, are important for achieving these goals. While the short-term goal of liver fluke control can be achieved by praziquantel chemotherapy, a comprehensive health education package targeting ...
In terms of drug resistance in liver flukes, the main concern is with triclabendazole (TCBZ). Its very success in the treatment of fasciolosis, underpinned by its efficacy against all the intra-mammalian lifecycle stages of fluke, inevitably has led to over-reliance on this single drug and ...
These flat, 8-mm to 15-mm long,87 leaf-shaped trematodes all have similar life cycles and disease pathogenesis, but differ in geographic distribution. Clonorchis sinensis, also known as the “Chinese liver fluke,” is found primarily in northeast China, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Opisthorchis...
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Metorchis conjunctus is a fluke belonging to the family Opisthorchidae, in which human infections with the closely related O. viverrini, O. felineus and Clonorchis sinensis have been extensively investigated. Like other flukes in this family, it lives within the biliary tree of the definitive...
Two months ago the patient had arrived Germany coming from western Siberia, one of the main endemic regions of this fluke. Opisthorchis eggs were found in the stool. Following the therapy with praziquantel (25 mg/kg bodyweight three times daily for 2 days) the patient recovered and no eggs ...
Introduction Objective: Fascioliasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease, caused by the liver fluke, Fasciola spp.. Human is occasional host when ingesting the metacercaria by eating contaminated aquatic vegetable. In the two past decades, human fasciolasis was emerging as a problem of public health in...
is a liver fluke which recently has been shown to have a high prevalence of infection among an indigenous group, Chachi, who reside in a tropical rainforest in the northwestern region of Ecuador. Since it is unknown which animals can act as a reservoir and/or definitive hosts for Amphim...