Fasciola hepatica

I know to look for an illness involving issues regarding the liver. Also, it is important to note that she is suffering from acute upper abdominal pain. Due to these symptoms, I think the woman is infected with the sheep liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica. F. hepatica is a parasite whose intermediate host is the snail. After leaving the snail, the free-swimming parasites live on water plants, such as watercress, which are then ingested by humans, initiating the infection. Once ingested, the larval flukes

experiment, both Coproantigen ELISA and Serology indirect ELISA were carried out on samples from a farmer which suspected his herds are suffering from Fasciola hepatica infection. The aim of this experiment is to find out if the samples are positive for Fasciola hepatica infection and discuss the difference between two tests. Fasciola hepatica, commonly known as the liver flukes, is parasites that are mainly located in hosts’ liver, feeding on blood of its host. The lifecycle of liver flukes start

Introduction Drenches are veterinary products which contain liquid formulation for oral administration that is used to kill internal and external parasites in most of the livestock especially in sheep. It serves mainly as a deworming purpose and is used in the worm control on any farms. Drenches is also known as anthelmintics as they contain active ingredients that kill the helminths in the stomach of the livestock. Basically, there are three major types of drenches which are the suspensions, solutions

IMMUNOASSY TECHNIQUES APPLIED FOR DECTECTION OF CATTLE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO ANTIGENS FROM FASCIOLA HEPATICA (LIVER FLUKE) INFECTIONS Alysia Kovos 18086284 Demonstrator: Brittany Caruana INTRODUCTION The parasite Fasciola hepatica (liver fluke) is a leaf like flatworm that is a part of the phylum Platyhelminthes (Grove, 2003). F.hepatica are hermaphrodites enabling all of them to asexually reproduce however they tend to mate with each to ensure genetic diversity and can have many eggs in a day (Grove

Drug interaction is a common phenomenon, that impairs or exaggerates the proposed effect of one or both administered drugs. Therefore, researchers should pay attention to this problem so as to elucidate possible interactions between different drugs when it deemed necessary to coadminister them. An example of combination between antibiotics and anthelmintic drugs that may be used in veterinary medicine is the coadministration of cephalosporin and nitroxynil. Cefoperazone is a semi-synthetic third

Introduction The disease discussed in this article is eumycetoma, a chronic granulomatous subcutaneous infectious disease that is endemic in the “mycetoma belt” of 30 degrees North to 15 degrees South of the equator (Hellemond et al., 2013). Sudan has the highest country-wide prevalence of eumycetoma, with 2% of the population being infected in the endemic villages in the Gezira area (Ahmed et al., 2004). Although mycetoma can be caused by various bacteria and fungi agents, the majority of mycetoma