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Hepatic and Intestinal Trematodes
Published in Max J. Miller, E. J. Love, Parasitic Diseases: Treatment and Control, 2020
This mix of environmental and cultural determinants is rarely static, and some changes in distributions of the various infections have been noted. Fasciolopsis buski, the giant intestinal fluke, appears to be decreasing in prevalence in Taiwan, but gaining in India and Bangladesh.1Echinostoma prevalence is also undergoing some remodeling. A focus of E. ilocanum has been reported from Northern Luzon2 in the Philippines, while in Indonesia a major focus of E. lindoense has disappeared.3 Many infections such as metagonimiasis,4 which is widely endemic in Korea, remain unchanged.
Fasciolopsis
Published in Dongyou Liu, Handbook of Foodborne Diseases, 2018
Silvia Stefania Longoni, M. Fiamma, B. Paglietti, A. Santona, P.A. Ton Nu
Fasciolopsis buski is the largest intestinal helminth of human parasites. This intestinal fluke causes fasciolopsiasis, a very common infectious disease in humans and other animals, especially pigs, in Asia, including China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and also India.1 This disease is the most common in school-age children and occurs in specific foci with prevalence varying from 60% in India to 10% in Thailand.2 It was described for the first time in 1843 by Dr. Busk, a British naval surgeon, who found the worm in the duodenum of an Indian sailor who died in the Seamen's Hospital in London. After report of another case of fasciolopsiasis in 1873, and an additional nine cases in 1902,3 Goddard declared in 19194 about this infectious disease:… has within the last decade come to be recognized as a serious condition both for the individual and for the community concerned.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Fasciolopsis buski [Latin:fasciola, a strip of cloth, or small bandage] An intestinal parasite, discovered in the duodenum in 1843 by George Busk (1807–1886) of King’s College Hospital, London. He described it in Diseases of the Liver, published in 1845. Cirrhosis of the liver due to the same parasite (Budd disease) was described by George Budd (1808–1882) in 1843.
Construction of a multiepitope vaccine candidate against Fasciola hepatica: an in silico design using various immunogenic excretory/secretory antigens
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2022
Mesut Akıl, Mehmet Aykur, Muhammet Karakavuk, Hüseyin Can, Mert Döşkaya
Selected B-cell and T-cell epitopes were evaluated for cross reaction with other genus and species. Aligned %100 species were showed in Table 4. According to these results, WGERGYIRMARNRGN (B-cell epitope of FhCL1) were aligned %100 with molecules of Fascioloides magna, Fasciola gigantica; EKLRESGRKMVKA and IKAYMESKRFIKWPL (B-cell epitopes of FhGST and FhHDM, respectively) were aligned %100 with molecules of Fasciola gigantica. RMYNKEYNGA, KLRESGRKMV and WMSEKFNMGL (MHC-I epitopes of FhCL1, FhHDM, and FhGST, respectively) were aligned %100 with molecules of Fasciola gigantica. MKLSLIWMVVLIISL, WGERGYIRMARNRGN, and REKLRESGRKMVKAL (MHC-II epitopes of FhKTM, FhCL1, and FhHDM, respectively) were aligned %100 with molecules F. gigantica; IKAYMESKRFIKWPL (MHC-II epitope of FhGST) were aligned %100 with molecule of Fasciolopsis buski.
Recent trends in praziquantel nanoformulations for helminthiasis treatment
Published in Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2022
Ana C. Mengarda, Bruno Iles, João Paulo F. Longo, Josué de Moraes
Helminth infections are caused by different species of platyhelminths and nematodes. Platyhelminths (also known as flatworms) include flukes (also known as trematodes), such as schistosomes, and tapeworms (also known as cestodes), such as the pork tapeworm that causes cysticercosis. One of the most impactful is schistosomiasis, which is caused by infection with intravascular flatworms (blood flukes) of the genus Schistosoma [2,3]. These helminth infections are often a cause of serious animal mortality and morbidity, resulting in considerably reduced economic output among domestic animals, mainly cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, and camels, with several species involved. For example, it has been estimated that 165 million cattle are infected with schistosomiasis worldwide [4]. In humans, schistosomiasis is clearly linked to poverty and despite affecting more than 240 million individuals, it continues to be neglected [3,5]. Food-borne trematodes, which are mainly caused by liver flukes (Fasciola spp., Opisthorchis spp., and Clonorchis sinensis), intestinal flukes (Heterophyes spp., Echinostoma spp., Metagonimus spp., and Fasciolopsis buski), and lung flukes (Paragonimus spp.) are also important human helminthiasis, affecting over 50 million people worldwide [6].
A review on inactivation methods of Toxoplasma gondii in foods
Published in Pathogens and Global Health, 2018
Adel Mirza Alizadeh, Sahar Jazaeri, Bahar Shemshadi, Fataneh Hashempour-Baltork, Zahra Sarlak, Zahra Pilevar, Hedayat Hosseini
In many countries, the most common foodborne parasites are protozoa such as Cryptosporidium spp., Entamoeba histolytica, Cyclospora cayetanensis, Giardia intestinalis, Sarcocystis (hominis and suihominis), Toxoplasma gondii, roundworms such as Anisakis spp. and Trichinella spp., flatworms such as Fasciola hepatica, Fasciolopsis buski and Paragonimus sppand tapeworms such as Diphyllobothrium spp., Taenia spp. and Echinococcus spp. One common zoonotic parasitic disease worldwide is toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by T. gondii [1].