fasciolosis การใช้

• Triclabendazole is used in control of fasciolosis of livestock in many countries.
• Though slightly less potent, artesunate is also useful in human fasciolosis.
• The infection is commonly called fasciolosis.
• In blood, anemia, hypoalbuminemia, and eosinophilia may be observed in all types of fasciolosis.
• Studies carried out in recent years have shown human fasciolosis to be an important public health problem.
• Human fasciolosis has been reported from countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
• High prevalences in humans are not necessarily found in areas where fasciolosis is a great veterinary problem.
• Fasciolosis is an important cause of both production and economic losses in the dairy and meat industry.
• Calves are susceptible to disease but in excess of 1000 metacercariae are usually required to cause clinical fasciolosis.
• A global analysis shows that the expected correlation between animal and human fasciolosis only appears at a basic level.
• Triclabendazole is the drug of choice in fasciolosis as it is highly effective against both mature and immature flukes.
• The best way to prevent Fasciolosis is by reducing the lymnaeid snail population or separating livestock from areas with these snails.
• Economical effect of fasciolosis in sheep consists in sudden deaths of animals as well as in reduction of weight gain and wool production.
• For instance, in South America, hyperendemics and mesoendemics are found in Bolivia and Peru where the veterinary problem is less important, while in countries such as Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, human fasciolosis is only sporadic or hypoendemic.
• 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.
• In Asia and Africa, people are infected both by " F . hepatica " and " F . gigantica " whereas human fasciolosis is caused only by " F . hepatica " in South and Central America and Europe.