Professional paper
Fasciolosis
Ivan-Conrado Šoštarić-Zuckermann
orcid.org/0000-0003-1723-8798
; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Fasciola hepatica is a trematode parasite which causes a disease called distomiasis or fascioliasis. In Croatia, but also worldwide, distomiasis caused by Fasciola hepatica is most common in sheep and cattle. Depending on the length of exposure and quantity of ingested invasive metacercariae, this parasite can cause an acute or chronic disease, or both types simultaneously. Acute distomiasis is caused by migration of juvenile flukes when they perforate Glisson’s capsule and burrow into the liver parenchyma. Chronic distomiasis is caused by adult fluke parasitizing in larger bile ducts. This short review describes and explains the typical macroscopic and microscopic lesions of simultaneous acute and chronic distomiasis in two sheep submitted for routine necropsy.
Keywords
distomiasis; fasciolosis; Fasciola hepatica; sheep; liver; pathology
Hrčak ID:
231367
URI
Publication date:
14.3.2016.
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