Fascioliasis and other plant-borne trematode zoonoses

S Mas-Coma, MD Bargues, MA Valero - International journal for …, 2005 - Elsevier
Fascioliasis and other food-borne trematodiases are included in the list of important
helminthiases with a great impact on human development. Six plant-borne trematode …

Epidemiology of fascioliasis in human endemic areas

S Mas-Coma - Journal of helminthology, 2005 - cambridge.org
Considered a secondary zoonotic disease until the mid-1990s, human fascioliasis is at
present emerging or re-emerging in many countries, including increases of prevalence and …

Hosts and parasites as aliens

H Taraschewski - Journal of Helminthology, 2006 - cambridge.org
Over the past decades, various free-living animals (hosts) and their parasites have invaded
recipient areas in which they had not previously occurred, thus gaining the status of aliens or …

Human and animal fascioliasis: origins and worldwide evolving scenario

S Mas-Coma, MA Valero… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fascioliasis is a plant-and waterborne zoonotic parasitic disease caused by two trematode
species:(i) Fasciola hepatica in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania and (ii) F …

[HTML][HTML] The status of human and animal fascioliasis in Iran: a narrative review article

K Ashrafi - Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The public health importance of human fascioliasis has increased during last
few decades due to the appearance of new emerging and re-emerging foci in many …

[PDF][PDF] Plant-borne human contamination by fascioliasis

K Ashrafi, MA Valero, J Massoud… - American Journal of …, 2006 - researchgate.net
Contamination by fasciolids takes place through ingestion of metacercariae attached to
vegetables. Experimental studies were performed with plant-made foods suggesting a role …

Distribution of Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica in the endemic area of Guilan, Iran: Relationships between zonal overlap and phenotypic traits

K Ashrafi, MA Valero, RV Peixoto, P Artigas… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fascioliasis is a zoonotic disease emerging in numerous parts of the world. In any endemic
area, the characterisation of scenarios and patterns of infection must always be considered …

[PDF][PDF] A faunistic survey of cercariae isolated from lymnaeid snails in

M Sharif, A Daryani, S Karimi - Pak J Bio Sci, 2010 - researchgate.net
The aim of this study was to elucidate the species diversity of larva trematodes in the
Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 3,266 lymnaeid …

Fasciola gigantica transmission in the zoonotic fascioliasis endemic lowlands of Guilan, Iran: experimental assessment

K Ashrafi, S Mas-Coma - Veterinary parasitology, 2014 - Elsevier
The lowland flatlands around the city of Bandar-Anzali, at the Caspian Sea shore, Guilan
province, are an endemic area where Fasciola gigantica appears to be the fasciolid species …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of human fascioliasis outbreaks in Iran

A Salahi-Moghaddam, F Arfaa - Journal of Archives in Military …, 2013 - brieflands.com
: The increase in number of human fascioliasis and its outbreaks in the last two decades
have changed the status of fascioliasis from a zoonosis to an immerging health problem …