Pdf the epidemiological picture of human fascioliasis has changed in recent years. Apt w, aguilera x, vega f, alcaino h, zulantay i, apt p. The cows were treated with nitroxynil in may and september prior to calving and with ivermectin after calving. Acute fasciolosis in cattle in southern brazil 707 results the cows were in a wetland during summer in february 2011 and returned for calving near the facility in august to a paddock with rice stubble. Fascioliasis, revision clinicoepidemiologica y diagnostico. Fasciolosis is a parasitic worm infection caused by the common liver fluke fasciola hepatica as well as by fasciola gigantica. Abstract the definite hosts of fasciola hepatica are sheeps. Fasciolosis definition of fasciolosis by the free dictionary. It affects humans, but its main host is ruminants such as cattle and sheep. Fascioliasis is a parasitic infection typically caused by fasciola hepatica, which is also known as the common liver fluke or the sheep liver fluke. Medicina veterinaria abstract the fasciolose is a disease of great veterinary importance for causing high economical losses, due to the condemnation of great number of livers and carcasses of animals in the slaughterhouses. Marcos l, maco v, castillo m, terashima a, zerpa r, gotuzzo e.
Emc tecnicas quirurgicas ortopedia y traumatologia vol. In south america, fascioliasis stands out due to the human endemic. The disease progresses through four distinct phases. Fasciola hepatica, fasciolose, perdas economicas tema central.
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