Combining Slaughterhouse Surveillance Data with Cattle Tracing Scheme and Environmental Data to Quantify Environmental Risk Factors for Liver Fluke in Cattle [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2017 Liver fluke infection causes serious disease (fasciolosis) in cattle and sheep in many regions of the world, resulting in production losses and additional economic consequences due to condemnation of the liver at slaughter.
Giles T. Innocent +7 more
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Associations of Liver Fluke Infection and Cholangiocarcinoma: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Cholangiocarcinoma (CCa) is a highly lethal malignancy of biliary tract epithelial cells. Liver fluke infection is one of the well-known causes of CCa in endemic areas of Southeast Asian and Western Pacific regions.
Sivanand A +4 more
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Ruminants, 2023 Rumen fluke (RF) are trematode parasites that have increased in prevalence within European ruminant livestock since the 1990s. Morbidity and mortality can result from the development of juvenile flukes in the duodenum, however, evidence for significant ...
Valentina Busin +7 more
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Children education for sustainable control of liver fluke infections. [PDF]
Infect Dis Poverty, 2022 Significant disease burden is caused by infections with human liver flukes, including Clonorchis sinensis , Opisthorchis viverrini and O. felineus .
Qian MB, Zhou XN.
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Stimulating Neoblast-Like Cell Proliferation in Juvenile Fasciola hepatica Supports Growth and Progression towards the Adult Phenotype In Vitro. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 Fascioliasis (or fasciolosis) is a socioeconomically important parasitic disease caused by liver flukes of the genus Fasciola. Flukicide resistance has exposed the need for new drugs and/or a vaccine for liver fluke control.
Paul McCusker +11 more
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Development and validation of a protocol to identify and recruit participants into a large scale study on liver fluke in cattle [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2018 Background Liver fluke infection caused by the parasite Fasciola hepatica is a major cause of production losses to the cattle industry in the UK. To investigate farm-level risk factors for fluke infection, a randomised method to recruit an appropriate ...
Catherine M. McCann +3 more
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Liver Fluke Infection Throughout Human Evolution [PDF]
Gastro Hep Advances, 2022 The species of liver fluke that infect humans are zoonotic parasites that we share with other animals. The complex way in which humans have interacted with their environment, and the animals that live alongside them, has affected our ancestors’ risk of ...
Tianyi Wang, Piers D. Mitchell
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A radiomics model based on magnetic resonance imaging to predict cytokeratin 7/19 expression and liver fluke infection of hepatocellular carcinoma [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer. HCC with liver fluke infection could harbor unique biological behaviors.
Jun-Qi Liu +12 more
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Liver Fluke-Associated Biliary Tract Cancer
Gut and Liver, 2018 Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an aggressive cancer arising from epithelial cells of the bile duct. Most patients with CCA have an unresectable tumor at the time of diagnosis.
Piyapan Prueksapanich +5 more
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Novel recombinant proteins and peptides from Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis viverrini for liver fluke exposure ELISA [PDF]
Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2023 Human serum samples from individuals living in Vietnam and Taiwan suspected of past Clonorchis sinensis or Opisthorchis viverrini infection were screened using several novel peptides and recombinant liver fluke proteins to determine if any consistent ...
Sumathy Mohan +2 more
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