<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Fascioloidosis is a parasitic disease of primary wild and domestic ruminants, caused by a digenean trematode, Fascioloides magna. The final hosts of F. magna are divided according to the host-parasite interactions into definitive, dead end and aberrant. The clinical appearance, pathology, outcome of disease, and its importance in disease epidemiology vary with different host types. According to this division, wild boar (Sus scrofa) are characterized as a dead end host. In this paper we analysed 12 wild boar livers from Croatia. Eleven of them contained pigment traces, pseudocysts, degrading pseudocysts, fluke migratory channels, live and degrading flukes. F. magna eggs were found in pseudocysts, but no eggs were recovered from faeces. Concurrent infection with F. magna and Fasciola hepatica was detected in one liver. According to everything we observed, wild boar currently has no direct role in maintaining and spreading the disease.</p></abstract>

Fascioloidosis is a parasitic disease of primary wild and domestic ruminants, caused by a digenean trematode, Fascioloides magna. The final hosts of F. magna are divided according to the host-parasite interactions into definitive, dead end and aberrant. The clinical appearance, pathology, outcome of disease, and its importance in disease epidemiology vary with different host types. According to this division, wild boar (Sus scrofa) are characterized as a dead end host. In this paper we analysed 12 wild boar livers from Croatia. Eleven of them contained pigment traces, pseudocysts, degrading pseudocysts, fluke migratory channels, live and degrading flukes. F. magna eggs were found in pseudocysts, but no eggs were recovered from faeces. Concurrent infection with F. magna and Fasciola hepatica was detected in one liver. According to everything we observed, wild boar currently has no direct role in maintaining and spreading the disease.

New data on wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) a dead-end host for large American liver fluke (Fascioloides magna)

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Heinzelova 55, 10000 Zagreb,

Ministry of Agriculture, Planinska 2a, 10000 Zagreb,

Božjakovina d.d., Božjakovečka 6, 10370 Božjakovina,

Helminthologia

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Fascioloidosis is a parasitic disease of primary wild and domestic ruminants, caused by a digenean trematode, Fascioloides magna. The final hosts of F. magna...

New data on wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) a dead-end host for large American liver fluke (Fascioloides magna)

Article Category: Research Note

Published Online: Feb 09, 2017

Page range: 77 - 80

Received: Aug 29, 2016

Accepted: Dec 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/helm-2017-0006

Keywords
wild boar, fascioloidosis, pathology, dead end host

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

New data on wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) a dead-end host for large American liver fluke (Fascioloides magna)

Article Category: Research Note

Published Online: Feb 09, 2017

Page range: 77 - 80

Received: Aug 29, 2016

Accepted: Dec 12, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/helm-2017-0006

Keywordswild boar, fascioloidosis, pathology, dead end host

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
wild boar, fascioloidosis, pathology, dead end host