Fluke abundance versus host age for an invasive trematode (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) of sympatric elk and beef cattle in southeastern Alberta, Canada

Abstract

Graphical AbstractAge–abundance profile for the trematode, Dicrocoelium dendriticum in a population of elk sampled from 2009 to 2011 from Cypress Hills Park, Alberta. The solid line represents the negative binomial distribution model fit using maximum likelihood; the dashed lines represent the 95% confidence intervals.

Morphological and molecular identification of Explanatum explanatum in domestic water buffalo in Pakistan

“…and 7 adult flukes were collected from with two populations obtained from Faisalabad (E1B and E10B) and one population obtained from Okara (E8B) respectively. To describe the morphology of adult liver flukes, parasites confirmed using molecular methods, as being F. gigantica were derived from different regions in Pakistan (Chaudhry et al, 2015), D. dendriticum were derived from cattle and elk in the Cypress Hills, Alberta, Canada (Beck et al, 2014).…”

“…isolates (Amor et al, 2011;Chaudhry et al, 2015;Farjallah S, 2013;Ichikawa and Itagaki, 2010;Itagaki et al, 1998) and Dicrocoeliidae including D. dendriticum (Beck et al, 2014;Gorjipoor et al, 2015;Maurelli et al, 2007;Otrantoa et al, 2007). Importantly, molecular analysis of the ITS-2 rDNA locus can also be used to show genetic variation in parasite species.…”

Comparative recruitment, morphology and reproduction of a generalist trematode,Dicrocoelium dendriticum, in three species of host

“…Host-related differences were also absent in comparisons of estimated total daily egg output calculated using ex vivo egg counts. Taken together, these data show that D. dendriticum performance is approximately equivalent in all three species of hosts, two of which (cattle and elk) are sympatric within a known site of introduction in Alberta, Canada (Goater and Colwell, 2007 ; Beck et al 2014 ).…”

Dicrocoelium Dendriticum Infection in a Patient with Chronic Schistosomiasis Haematobium

“…Abroad, dicrocoeliasis was reported in the Canadian sympatric elk and beef cattle (Beck et al, 2014), in Côte d'Ivoire in the non-human primates (Kouassi et al, 2015), in Ghanaian school children (Ofori et al, 2015), in Indian goats (Godara et al, 2014), in Italian patients and the imported beef cattle (Stancampiano et al, 2007), in Japan D. chinensis was reported in Iwate prefecture (Ohtori et al, 2014), in Malaysian edible animals (Ran et al, 2015), in Switzerland, dicrocoeliasis was the most significant parasite of llamas and alpacas (Hilbe et al, 2015), in Turkish University students (Köksal et al, 2010) and in Turkish patients and garden snails (Köse et al, 2015). Hatam-Nahavandi et al (2015) in Iran stated that in recent years, decreasing annual rainfalls in some countries and population growth forced to a shortage of freshwater resources.…”