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Dicrocoeliosis – the Present State of Knowledge with Respect to Wildlife Species
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| Author | Lamka, Jírí |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Ducháãek L. , J . Lamka : Dicrocoeliosis – the Present State of Knowledge with Respect to Wildlife Species. Acta Vet. Brno 2003, 72: 613-626. The present paper summarizes contemporary knowledge concerning dicrocoeliosis (chronic disease of the liver caused by the lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum) as to its spraed, etiology, life cycle, epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunogenesis, clinical symptoms, diagnostics, therapy, prevention of dicrocoeliosis, and human infection. The major part of published data is connected with farm animal husbandry, dicrocoeliosis of wildlife species is examined to a limited extent only. Although dicrocoeliosis is intensively studied, numerous aspects of this trematodosis have to be verified. Control of dicrocoeliosis in domesticated and wildlife species is not fully effective at present. Dicrocoelium dendriticum, lancet fluke Dicrocoeliosis is a helmithosis caused by the lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum Rudolphi, 1819 (D. dendriticum, syn. D. lanceolatum, Dicrocoelidae, Platyhelminthes), parasitizing in the liver of ruminants as well as many other animals species including man. This parasitosis belongs to the six principal and economically most important pasture helminthoses of sheep and cattle–trichostrongylidosis, dictyocaulosis, protostrongylidosis, moniesiosis, fasciolosis, and dicrocoeliosis (Hiepe 1994). Parasitosis accompanies man and farm animals breeding from time immemorial. The eggs of D. dendriticum were found in the coprolites and paleofaeces of the prehistoric human population in Central Europe. Nevertheless, it is not certain whether the lancet fluke D. dendriticum was a real parasite, or whether the found eggs indicate pseudoparasitism after consummation of animal liver (Aspöck et al. 1999). Spread of dicrocoel iosis Dicrocoeliosis occurs in both pasture-bred and wildlife species throughout the world. The disease is common in those regions of Europe, Asia, North Africa and America, where the local conditions are favourable for certain species of earth snails and ants as intermediate hosts. Such regions in Europe are, e.g., mountain pastures of Alpine, Scandinavian and Mediterranean countries (Eckert and Hertzberg 1994); in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) dicrocoeliosis occurs in the regions with pasture breeding of ruminants, but its prevalence does not exceed 1% (Jurá‰ek and Dubinsk ̆ 1993). It occurs in central and southern Bohemia as well as southern Moravia (Kotr lá et al. 1984). Lietava (1984) evaluated the prevalence of dicrocoeliosis in the region of Central Slovakia, which amounted to 54.8%. Extensity of dicrocoeliosis in the northern part of central and eastern Slovakia ranged from 8% to 54% (Fi lo et al. 1986). In Hungary dicrocoeliosis ranks among the most frequently occurring parasitoses with the prevalence of 21% (Kassai and Bekesi 1993). In Germany in the region of Frankfurt/Oder Stuhrberg et al. (1975) report the ACTA VET. BRNO 2003, 72: 613–626 Address for correspondence: MVDr. Lubomír Ducháãek Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University in Prague Heyrovského 1203, 500 05 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Phone: +420 495 067 353 Fax: + 420 495 514 373 E-mail:duchacek@faf.cuni.cz http://www.vfu.cz/acta-vet/actavet.htm |
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| Subject Keyword | Alpine Animal Husbandry Ants Chronic disease Cooperative breeding Czech dysplasia, metatarsal type Dicrocoelium Eckert–Mauchly Award Egg Food Product Fasciola hepatica Fascioliasis Fax Lancet Ovum Oxytetracycline 200 MG/ML Injectable Solution [Terra-Vet] Parasitic Diseases Platyhelminthes Registered jack Ruminants Scientific Publication Snails Trematoda Word lists by frequency chlorhexidine gluconate 20 MG/ML Topical Solution [Vet One] |
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