The Giant Liver Fluke, Fascioloides magna: Past, Present and Future Research

Králová-Hromadová, Ivica; Juhásová, Ludmila; Bazsalovicsová, Eva

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29508-4

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“…According to Pybus (2001) and Králová-Hromadová et al (2016) dead end hosts do not contribute to the maintenance and spread of fascioloidosis. Infections in these animals rarely result in the sexual maturation of parasites and production of a few eggs.…”

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“…Originally a disease of North American deer species, caused by a digenean trematode, Fascioloides magna (Bassi, 1875), fascioloidosis was described for the fi rst time in Europe in the former Royal Park La Mandria near Turin in Italy (for a review see Králová-Hromadová et al, 2016). Subsequently, the disease was detected in the Czech Republic (Ullrich, 1930;Erhardová-Kotrlá, 1971), Germany (Salomon, 1932), Austria (Pfeiffer, 1983), Hungary (Majoros & Sztojkov, 1994), the Slovak Republic (Rajský et al, 1994(Rajský et al, , 2002, Croatia (Marinculić et al, 2002), and Serbia (Trailović et al, 2008).…”

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“…moose, sika deer, bison, cattle, horse, wild boar), and, fi nally, aberrant hosts, in which the formation of pseudocysts does not occur, leading to excessive tissue damage by constantly migrating fl ukes, and consequent high mortality (e.g. sheep, chamois, moufl on, roe deer) (Králová-Hromadová et al, 2016).…”

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“…For instance, Králová-Hromadová et al (2016) mention wild boar as a rare dead end host. On the other hand, a 69 % prevalence of F. magna infection in feral pigs from Southern Texas was documented by Foreyt et al (1975).…”

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New data on wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) a dead-end host for large American liver fluke (Fascioloides magna)

Konjević

Bujanić

Erman³

et al. 2017

Helminthologia

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SummaryFascioloidosis is a parasitic disease of primary wild and domestic ruminants, caused by a digenean trematode, Fascioloides magna. The fi nal hosts of F. magna are divided according to the host-parasite interactions into defi nitive, dead end and aberrant. The clinical appearance, pathology, outcome of disease, and its importance in disease epidemiology vary with different host types. According to this division, wild boar (Sus scrofa) are characterized as a dead end host. In this paper we analysed 12 wild boar livers from Croatia. Eleven of them contained pigment traces, pseudocysts, degrading pseudocysts, fl uke migratory channels, live and degrading fl ukes. F. magna eggs were found in pseudocysts, but no eggs were recovered from faeces. Concurrent infection with F. magna and Fasciola hepatica was detected in one liver. According to everything we observed, wild boar currently has no direct role in maintaining and spreading the disease.

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New data on wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) a dead-end host for large American liver fluke (Fascioloides magna)

Konjević

Bujanić

Erman³

et al. 2017

Helminthologia

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“…Consequently, giant liver fl uke was detected in Baranja region, northeastern Croatia (Marinculić et al, 2002) and in Serbia (Marinković et al, 2013). Since the fi rst fi ndings of the parasite in the respective countries, F. magna has been commonly reported in all mentioned European regions within the Danube fl oodplain forests (for review see Králová-Hromadová et al, 2016). Studies on population genetics of European populations of F. magna using mitochondrial (Králová-Hromadová et al, 2008) and microsatellite (Minárik et al, 2014;Juhásová et al, unpublished data) markers revealed that giant liver fl uke in DFF represents same genetic pool.…”

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A long-term survey ofFascioloides magnain red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Slovakia (Danube floodplain forests) during the period of 2005 – 2015

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SummaryFascioloidosis of wild and domestic ruminants is caused by giant liver fl uke, Fascioloides magna (Trematoda; Fasciolidae). In Slovakia, the parasite is present in the Danube fl oodplain forests permanent focus for almost 30 years. Here we provide data on 11-year survey of F. magna acquired from 137 red deer (Cervus elaphus) hunted in the southwestern hunting grounds (districts Komárno and Dunajská Streda). Almost 47 % of all examined deer, including males, females and fawns, were infected with F. magna. During the studied period, the prevalence ranged between 33.3 % (2009) and 63.6 % (2007). Prevalence of fascioloidosis varied between sexes and age categories; while the lowest overall prevalence was detected in females (33.3 %), higher values were documented for red deer males (50.6 %) and fawns (43.3 %). A presence of giant liver fl uke in studied regions of southwestern Slovakia deserves future attention and ongoing monitoring due to a possible threat of F. magna infection of domestic ruminants in overlapping regions.

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