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Overview
Historical Perspective
Classification
Pathophysiology
Causes
Differentiating Fasciolosis From Other Diseases
Epidemiology and Demographics
Risk Factors
Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
Diagnosis
History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Laboratory Findings | Other Imaging Findings | Other Diagnostic Studies
Treatment
Medical Therapy | Surgery | Primary Prevention | Secondary Prevention | Future or Investigational Therapies
Case Studies
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Fasciolosis is an important helminth disease caused by two trematodes Fasciola hepatica (the common liver fluke) and Fasciola gigantica. This disease belongs to the plant-borne trematode zoonoses. In Europe, the Americas and Oceania only F. hepatica is a concern, but the distributions of both species overlap in many areas of Africa and Asia.[1]
The definitive host range is very broad and includes many herbivorous mammals, including humans. The life cycle includes freshwater snails as an intermediate host of the parasite.[2] Recently, worldwide losses in animal productivity due to fasciolosis were conservatively estimated at over US$3.2 billion per annum.[3] In addition, fasciolosis is now recognized as an emerging human disease: the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 2.4 million people are infected with Fasciola, and a further 180 million are at risk of infection.[4]
Source of infection for humans and transmission
Human F. hepatica infection is determined by the presence of the intermediate snail hosts, domestic herbivorous animals, climatic conditions and the dietary habits of man.[5] Sheep, goats and cattle are considered the predominant animal reservoirs. While other animals can be infected, they are usually not very important for human disease transmission. On the other hand, some authors have observed that donkeys and pigs contribute to disease transmission in Bolivia.[6] Among wild animals, it has been demonstrated that the peridomestic rat (Rattus rattus) may play an important role in the spread as well as in the transmission of the parasite in Corsica.[7] In France, nutria (Myocastor coypus) was confirmed as a wild reservoir host of F. hepatica.[8] Humans are infected by ingestion of aquatic plants that contain the infected metacercariae.[9] Several species of aquatic vegetables are known as a vehicle of human infection. In Europe, Nasturtium officinale (common watercress), N. silvestris, Rorippa amphibia (wild watercress), Taraxacum dens leonis (dandelion leaves), Valerianella olitora (lamb’s lettuce), and Mentha viridis (spearmint) were reported as a source of human infections.[10] In the Northern Bolivian Altiplano, some authors suggested that several aquatic plants such as bero-bero (watercress), algas (algae), kjosco and tortora could act as a source of infection for humans.[11] Because F. hepatica cercariae also encyst on water surface, humans can be infected by drinking of fresh untreated water containing metacercariae.[5] In addition, an experimental study suggested that humans consuming raw liver dishes from fresh livers infected with juvenile flukes could become infected.[12]
Intermediate hosts
Intermediate hosts of F. hepatica are freshwater snails from family Lymnaeidae.[2][13] Snails from family Planorbidae act as an intermediate host of F. hepatica very occasionally.[1]
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Pathogenesis
Clinical Signs
In humans
In animals
Clinical signs of fasciolosis are always closely associated with infectious dose (amount of ingested metacercariae). In sheep, as the most common definitive host, clinical presentation is divided into 4 types:[14][15]
- Acute Type I Fasciolosis: infectious dose is more than 5000 ingested metacercariae. Sheep suddenly die without any previous clinical signs. Ascites, abdominal haemorrhage, icterus, pallor of membranes, weakness may be observed in sheep.
- Acute Type II Fasciolosis: infectious dose is 1000-5000 ingested metacercariae. As above, sheep die but briefly show pallor, loss of condition and ascites.
- Subacute Fasciolosis: infectious dose is 800-1000 ingested metacercariae. Sheep are lethargic, anemic and may die. Weight loss is dominant feature.
- Chronic Fasciolosis: infectious dose is 200-800 ingested metacercariae. Asymptomatic or gradual development of bottle jaw and ascites (ventral edema), emaciation, weight loss.
In blood, anemia, hypoalbuminemia, and eosinophilia may be observed in all types of fasciolosis.[15] Elevation of liver enzyme activities, such a glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), is detected in subacute or chronic fasciolosis from 12-15 week after ingestion of metacercariae.[16][17] Economical effect of fasciolosis in sheep consists in sudden deaths of animals as well as in reduction of weight gain and wool production.[18][19] In goats and cattle, the clinical manifestation is similar to sheep. However, acquired resistance to F. hepatica infection is well-known in adult cattle.[20][21] Calves are susceptible to disease but in excess of 1000 metacercariae are usually required to cause clinical fasciolosis. In this case the disease is similar to sheep and is characterized by weight loss, anemia, hypoalbuminemia and (after infection with 10,000 metacercariae) death.[22] Importance of cattle fasciolosis consist in economic losses caused by condemnation of livers at slaughter and production losses especially due to reduced weight gain.[23]
Resistance to infection
Mechanisms of resistance have been studied by several authors in different animal species. These studies may help to better understand the immune response to F. hepatica in host and are necessary in development of vaccine against the parasite. It has been established that cattle acquire resistance to challenge infection with F. hepatica and F. gigantica when they have been sensitized with primary patent or drug-abbreviated infection.[20] Resistance to fasciolosis was also documented in rats.[24] On the other hand, sheep and goats are not resistant to re-infection with F. hepatica.[25][26] However, there is evidence that two sheep breeds, in particular Indonesian thin tail sheep and Red maasai sheep, are resistant to F. gigantica.[27][28] No reports concerning the resistance in humans are available.
Diagnosis
Treatment and prevention
Anthelmintics
In humans
For high efficacy and safety, triclabendazole (Egaten®) in dose 10-12 mg/kg is drug of choice in human fasciolosis.[29] No drug alternatives are available for humans. On the other hand, nitazoxanide were successfully used in human fasciolosis treatment in Mexico.[30] Bithionol is another drug of choice used for treatment of fasciola hepatica.[31]
In animals
A number of drugs have been used in control fasciolosis in animals. Drugs differ in their efficacy, mode of action, price, and viability. Fasciolicides (drugs against Fasciola spp.) fall into five main chemical groups:[32]
- Halogenated phenols: bithionol (Bitin), hexachlorophene (Bilevon), nitroxynil (Trodax)
- Salicylanilides: closantel (Flukiver, Supaverm), rafoxanide (Flukanide, Ranizole)
- Benzimidazoles: triclabendazole (Fasinex), albendazol (Vermitan, Valbazen), mebendazol (Telmin), luxabendazole (Fluxacur)
- Sulphonamides: clorsulon (Ivomec Plus)
- Phenoxyalkanes: diamphenetide (Coriban)
Triclabendazole (Fasinex) is considered as the most common drug due to its high efficacy against adult as well as juvenile flukes. Triclabendazole is used in control of fasciolosis of livestock in many countries. Nevertheless, long-term veterinary use of triclabendazole has caused appearance of resistance to F. hepatica. In animals, triclabendazole resistance was first described in Australia,[33] later in Ireland[34] and Scotland[35] and more recently in the Netherlands.[36] Considering this fact, scientists have started to work on the development of new drug. Recently, a new fasciolicide was successfully tested in naturally and experimentally infected cattle in Mexico. This new drug is called compound Alpha and is chemically very much closed to triclabendazole.[37]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mas-Coma, S., Bargues, M.D., Valero, M.A., 2005. Fascioliasis and other plant-borne trematode zoonose. Int. J. Parasitol. 35, 1255–1278.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Torgerson, P., Claxton, J., 1999. Epidemiology and control. In: Dalton, J.P. (Ed.), Fasciolosis. CAB International Publishing, Wallingford, pp. 113–149.
- ↑ Spithill, T.W., Smooker, P.M., Copeman, D.B. 1999. Fasciola gigantica: epidemiology, control, immunology and molecular biology. In: Dalton, J.P. (Ed.), Fasciolosis. CAB International Publishing, Wallingford, pp. 465–525.
- ↑ Anonymus 1995. Control of Foodborne Trematode Infections. WHO Technical Series No. 849. WHO, Geneva, 157 pp.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1
- ↑ Mas-Coma, S., Rodriguez, A., Bargues, M.D., Valero, M.A., Coello, J., Angles, R., 1998. Secondary reservoir role of domestic animals other than sheep and cattle in fascioliasis transmission on the northern Bolivian Altiplano. Res. Rev. Parasitol. 57, 39–46.
- ↑ Mas-Coma, S., Fons, R., Feliu, C., Bargues, M.D., Valero, M.A., Galán-Puchades, M.T., 1988. Small mammals as natural definitive hosts of the liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758 (Trematoda: Fasciolidae): a review and two new records of epidemiologic interest on the island of Corsica. Rivista di Parassitologia 5, 73–78.
- ↑ Menard, A., Agoulon, A., L’Hostis, M., Rondelaud, D., Collard, S., Chauvin, A., 2001. Myocastor coypus as a reservoir host of Fasciola hepatica in France. Vet. Res. 32, 499–508.
- ↑ Markell, E.K., Voge, M., 1999. Medical Parasitology, eighth ed.. Saunders Company Publication, pp. 185–188.
- ↑
- ↑ Bjorland, J., Bryan, R.T., Strauss, W., Hillyer, G.V., McAuley, J.B., 1995. An outbreak of acute fascioliasis among Aymara Indians in the Bolivian Altiplano. Clin. Infect. Dis. 21, 1228–1233.
- ↑ Taira, N., Yoshifuji, H., Boray, J.C., 1997. Zoonotic potential of infection with Fasciola spp. by consumption of freshly prepared raw liver containing immature flukes. Int. J. Parasitol. 27, 775–779.
- ↑ Graczyk, T.K., Fried, B., 1999. Development of Fasciola hepatica in the intermediate host. In: Dalton, J.P. (Ed.), Fasciolosis. CAB International Publishing, Wallingford, pp. 31–46.
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- ↑ 15.0 15.1
- ↑ Anderson, P.H., Matthews, J.G., Berrett, S., Brush, P.J., Patterson, D.S., 1981. Changes in plasma enzyme activities and other blood components in response to acute and chronic liver damage in cattle. Res Vet Sci. 31, 1-4.
- ↑ Sykes, A.R., Coop, A.R., Robinson, M.G., 1980. Chronic subclinical ovine fascioliasis: plasma glutamate dehydrogenase, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase and aspartate aminotransferase activities and their significance as diagnostic aids. Res. Vet. Sci. 28, 71–78.
- ↑ Sinclair, K.B., 1962. Observations on the clinical pathology of ovine fascioliasis. Brit. Vet. J. 118, 37–53.
- ↑ Roseby, F.B. 1970. The effect of fasciolosis on the wool production of merino sheep. Aust. Vet. J. 46, 361–365.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Haroun, E.M., Hillyer, G.V., 1986. Resistance to fascioliasis – a review. Vet. Parasitol. 20, 63–93.
- ↑ Doyle, J.J., 1973. The relationship between the duration of a primary infection and the subsequent development of an acquired resistance to experimental infections with Fasciola hepatica in calves. Res. Vet. Sci., 14, 97-103.
- ↑
- ↑ Phiri, I.K., Phiri, A.M., Harrison, L.J.S., 2006. Serum antibody isotype responses of Fasciola-infected sheep and cattle to excretory and secretory products of Fasciola species. Vet. Parasitol. 141, 234–242.
- ↑ Van Milligen, F.J., Cornelissen, J.B.W.J., Bokhout, B.A., 1998. Location of induction and expression of protective immunity against Fasciola hepatica at the gut level: a study using an ex vivo infection model with ligated gut segments. J. Parasitol. 84, 771–777.
- ↑ Chauvin, A., Bouvet, G., Boulard, C., 1995. Humoral and cellular immune responses to Fasciola hepatica experimental primary and secondary infection in sheep. Int. J. Parasitol. 25, 1227-41.
- ↑ Martinez-Moreno, A., Martínez-Moreno, F.J., Acosta, I., Gutiérrez, P.N., Becerra, C., Hernández, S. 1997. Humoral and cellular immune responses to experimental Fasciola hepatica infections in goats. Parasitol. Res. 83, 680–686.
- ↑ Roberts, J.A., Estuningsih, E., Wiedosari, E., Spithill, T.W., 1997. Acquisition of resistance against Fasciola gigantica by Indonesian thin tail sheep. Vet. Parasitol. 73, 215–224.
- ↑ Wamae, L.W., 1996. Comparative pathogenesis and immunochemistry analysis of Fasciola gigantica infection in cattle and sheep. PhD Thesis. University of Edinburgh.
- ↑ Savioli, L., Chistulo, L., Montresor, A., 1999. New opportunities for the control of fascioliasis. Bull. WHO 77, 300.
- ↑ Rossignol, J.F., Abaza, H., Friedman, H., 1998. Successful treatment of human fascioliasis with nitazoxanide. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 92, 103–104.
- ↑ Ramachandran, A., 2000. Pharmacology Recall.
- ↑ Fairweather, I., Boray, J.C., 1999. Fasciolicides: efficacy, action, resistance and its management. Vet. J. 158, 81–112
- ↑ Overend, D.J., Bowen, F.L., 1995. Resistance of Fasciola hepatica to triclabendazole. Aust. Vet. J. 72, 275–6.
- ↑ O’Brien, D.J., 1998. Fasciolosis: a threat to livestock. Irish Vet. J. 51, 539–541.
- ↑ Mitchell, G.B., Maris, L., Bonniwell, M.A., 1998. Triclabendazole-resistant liver fluke in Scottish sheep. Vet. Rec. 143, 399.
- ↑ Moll, L., Gaasenbeek, C.P.H., Vellema, P., Borgsteede, F.H.M., 2000. Resistance of Fasciola hepatica against triclabendazole in cattle and sheep in the Netherlands. Vet. Rec. 91, 153–158.
- ↑ Ibarra, F., Vera, Y., Quiroz, H., Canto, J., Castillo, R., Hernandez, A., Ochoa, P. 2004. Determination of the effective dose of an experimental fasciolicide in naturally and experimentally infected cattle. Vet. Parasitol. 120, 65–74.
See also
External links
- Fasciolosis Overview at CDC
- Immunodiagnosis of fasciolosis in Bolivian Altiplano
- Fasciolosis
- Pictures of adult flukes
- Pictures of F. hepatica eggs
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