Anatomical studies of sibling species within neotropical lymnaeids, snail intermediate hosts of fascioliasis [PDF]
Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006 Several anatomical parameters of the reproductive system have been used to distinguish Lymnaea cubensis from L. viatrix, the snail hosts of fascioliasis in South America and the Caribbean area.
Alfredo Gutierrez +2 more
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Genetic uniformity, geographical spread and anthropogenic habitat modifications of lymnaeid vectors found in a One Health initiative in the highest human fascioliasis hyperendemic of the Bolivian Altiplano [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background Fascioliasis is a snail-borne zoonotic trematodiasis emerging due to climate changes, anthropogenic environment modifications, and livestock movements.
M. Dolores Bargues +8 more
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Fascioliasis in Llama, Lama glama, in Andean Endemic Areas: Experimental Transmission Capacity by the High Altitude Snail Vector Galba truncatula and Epidemiological Analysis of Its Reservoir Role [PDF]
Animals, 2021 South American camelids are definitive hosts of Fasciola hepatica. However, their capacity to participate in the transmission and epidemiology of fascioliasis has never been appropriately studied. Therefore, an F. hepatica isolate from Argentine llama is
Santiago Mas-Coma +9 more
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An outbreak of canine schistosomiasis in Utah: Acquisition of a new snail host (Galba humilis) by Heterobilharzia americana, a pathogenic parasite on the move [PDF]
One Health, 2021 Parasites with complex life cycles engaging multiple host species living among different environments well-exemplify the value of a cross-cutting One Health approach to understanding fundamental concerns like disease emergence or spread.
Eric S. Loker +11 more
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Global warming induced spread of the highest human fascioliasis hyperendemic area [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Climate change is driving the occurrence of several infectious diseases. Within a One Health action to complement the ongoing preventive chemotherapy initiative against human fascioliasis in the Northern Bolivian Altiplano hyperendemic area ...
Pablo F. Cuervo +5 more
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DNA Multi-Marker Genotyping and CIAS Morphometric Phenotyping of Fasciola gigantica-Sized Flukes from Ecuador, with an Analysis of the Radix Absence in the New World and the Evolutionary Lymnaeid Snail Vector Filter [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Fascioliasis is a disease caused by Fasciola hepatica worldwide transmitted by lymnaeid snails mainly of the Galba/Fossaria group and F. gigantica restricted to parts of Africa and Asia and transmitted by Radix lymnaeids.
Maria Dolores Bargues +9 more
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Paleobiogeographical origins of Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica in light of new DNA sequence characteristics of F. nyanzae from hippopotamus [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Fascioliasis is a highly pathogenic disease affecting humans and livestock worldwide. It is caused by the liver flukes Fasciola hepatica transmitted by Galba/Fossaria lymnaeid snails in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania, and F.
María Dolores Bargues +10 more
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Susceptibility of lymnaeid snails to Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica (Digenea: Fasciolidae): a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
PeerJBackground Fasciolosis is a food-borne disease that causes major economic losses, globally. This zoonotic disease is caused by Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica species which employ freshwater snails from the family Lymnaeidae as their ...
Philile Ignecious Ngcamphalala +3 more
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DNA multigene characterization of Fasciola hepatica and Lymnaea neotropica and its fascioliasis transmission capacity in Uruguay, with historical correlation, human report review and infection risk analysis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 BackgroundFascioliasis is a pathogenic disease transmitted by lymnaeid snails and recently emerging in humans, in part due to effects of climate changes, anthropogenic environment modifications, import/export and movements of livestock.
María Dolores Bargues +6 more
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Mitochondrial genome of the fluke pond snail, Austropeplea cf. brazieri (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Lymnaeid snails of the genus Austropeplea are an important vector of the liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica), contributing to livestock production losses in Australia and New Zealand.
Tanapan Sukee +7 more
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