Trematode Infections and Diseases of Man and Animals

Kumar, V.

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“…This is because the only available anti-schistosome drug, praziquantel, is not being used to treat bovine schistosomosis in Kerala. The current practice of using antimony compounds leads to energy depletion, reduced fecundity and ''hepatic shift'' (Kumar 1999) instead of destroying the adult worms. Hence ELISA positive animals in the study could be considered as those harbouring schistosomes.…”

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“…The Indian species, Schistosoma spindale, located in portal and mesenteric veins of buffalo, ox, sheep, goat, rarely horse and donkey and rodents causes pseudotubercle formation in the liver and intestine along with thrombosis of periportal veins (Kalapesi and Purohit 1954). The disease is widely distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Laos (Kumar 1999). It is noteworthy that abattoir surveys reveal a significant prevalence of S.spindale among slaughtered cattle of Kerala (Ravindran et al 2007;Lakshmanan et al 2011).…”

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Efficacy of Dot-ELISA using different antigens in detecting anti-schistosome antibodies among bovines in field conditions

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Schistosomosis has been recognised as one of the major parasitic diseases of livestock and human beings. Schistosoma spindale is the major cause of visceral schistosomosis among bovines of Kerala State. Besides pathology in animals, it has been long known that cercariae of S. spindale are a common cause of dermatitis in human beings in Asia. However, detection of this disease based on coprology has underestimated the prevalence of this economically important disease among cattle of the State. An efficient diagnostic tool providing unequivocal evidence of infection in living animals is perhaps, the key to formulate and deliver control measures to the target population. It is also crucial for an enhanced understanding of parasite epidemiology. The utility of excretory-secretory proteins as diagnostic and vaccine candidates for schistosomosis has been a focus of medical research since long. There exists a paucity of information with regard to analysis of ES proteins of S. spindale and their incorporation to develop sensitive and specific serodiagnostic tool. Hence a study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of Dot-ELISA incorporating different antigens of S. spindale and to validate the test under field conditions.

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“…The former species has been reported in humans from Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Turkey, Tunisia, Siberia, Europe, Russia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, India and Vietnam (Yu and Mott 1994). Kumar (1999) estimated that 10,000 people were affected by heterophyiases in Egypt in 1992 and reported a high prevalence of heterophyiasis in China with estimates of 230,000 infected individuals (Fried et al 2004).…”

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“…A subspecies of this digenean, also considered as a geographic variant by some researchers, is N. s. schikhobalowi, a human parasite in Siberia (Kumar 1999).…”

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“…Although less associated with mortality than other groups of parasites, intestinal trematodes are responsible for significant morbidity, food safety and quality problems (Toledo et al 2006;Yu and Mott 1994), but they have not attracted the interest of international agencies until recently. The intestinal trematodes transmitted by fish belong to the Echinostomatidae, Heterophyidae, and Nanophyetidae but there are several other intestinal or liver trematodes within Diplostomidae, Fasciolidae, Gastrodiscidae, Gymnophallidae, Lecithodendriidae, Microphallidae, Paramphistomatidae, Plagiorchiidae and Strigeidae (Chai 2007;Chai et al 2005a;Dawer 1956;Kumar 1999;Mas-Coma and Bargues 1997;Yamaguti 1971;Yu and Mott 1994). All of these species are acquired by humans from ingestion of raw or undercooked fish, mollusks, amphibians, terrestrial snakes, aquatic insects and aquatic plants (Chai et al 2009;Yu and Mott 1994).…”

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Global status of fish-borne zoonotic trematodiasis in humans

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Madsen

Fried

2013

Acta Parasitologica

110

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Fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT), infecting humans and mammals worldwide, are reviewed and options for control discussed. Fifty nine species belonging to 4 families, i.e. Opisthorchiidae (12 species), Echinostomatidae (10 species), Heterophyidae (36 species) and Nanophyetidae (1 species) are listed. Some trematodes, which are highly pathogenic for humans such as Clonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis viverrini, O. felineus are discussed in detail, i.e. infection status in humans in endemic areas, clinical aspects, symptoms and pathology of disease caused by these flukes. Other liver fluke species of the Opisthorchiidae are briefly mentioned with information about their infection rate and geographical distribution. Intestinal flukes are reviewed at the family level. We also present information on the first and second intermediate hosts as well as on reservoir hosts and on habits of human eating raw or undercooked fish.

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Ursachen spezifischer Muskelveränderungen durch Pilze, Protozoen, Würmer und Gliederfüßer

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Trematode Infections and Diseases of Man and Animals

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Efficacy of Dot-ELISA using different antigens in detecting anti-schistosome antibodies among bovines in field conditions

Efficacy of Dot-ELISA using different antigens in detecting anti-schistosome antibodies among bovines in field conditions

Global status of fish-borne zoonotic trematodiasis in humans

Ursachen spezifischer Muskelveränderungen durch Pilze, Protozoen, Würmer und Gliederfüßer

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