Fasciolidae is a family of trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences, which cause the disease Fasciolosis. Fasciolidae is divided into five genera by Olson et al. 2003. The family's various species are localised in liver, gall bladder, and intestine.

Fascioloides [fas″e-o-loi′dēz] a genus of flukes (digenetic trematode) of the family Fasciolidae. F. magna found in the liver and rarely the lungs of cattle, sheep, deer, pig, and horse and in many wild ruminants in North America and Europe.

Feb 7, 2011 · The giant liver fluke Fascioloides magna (Bassi, 1875) (Trematoda: Fasciolidae) is a remarkable trematode species, with the maximum length of adult worms reaching some 10 cm, a conspicuous feature that makes this fluke one of the largest parasites of the hepatobiliary system of mammals, Fig. 1.

The Fasciolidae is a relatively small group of digeneans that are hypothesized to have originated in African proboscideans and that later radiated in Eurasian herbivores.

Human fascioliasis is a trematode zoonosis of interest in public health. It affects approximately 50 million people worldwide and over 180 million are at risk of infection in both developed and underdeveloped countries.

Sep 10, 2019 · Fasciolopsis buski (subfamily Fasciolopsinae) is a large fluke (up to 7.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide) that infects the small intestine of humans and pigs in East and Southeast Asia, causing diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, ascites, and bowel obstruction.

Fasciolosis is an important food- and water-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by the liver flukes of the genus Fasciola (1 – 3).

Fasciolidae is a family of trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences. Fasciolidae is divided into five genera by Olsen et al. 2003. The family's various species are localised in liver, gall bladder, and intestine. Their life-cycle includes an intermediate host, freshwater snails from the family ...

Oct 31, 2018 · Fasciola species (Digenea: Fasciolidae) are the large liver flukes, which primarily infect ruminants and accidentally humans, and then particularly has the socio-economic importance as the food-borne zoonotic trematodes [1].

Fasciolidae is a family of trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences, which cause the disease Fasciolosis. Fasciolidae is divided into five genera by Olson et al. 2003. The family's various species are localised in liver, gall bladder, and intestine.