Morphology Diagnosis

Life cycle Epidemiology

Symptom Prevention
 Morphology
1. Adult
• reddish yellow when alive; grayish white when
dead.
•Look like a large peace of ginger.
• 20~75×8~20 mm, the largest trematode
• The Ventral sucker is 4 times larger than the oral
sucker.
2.Egg
• Oval, slightly yellow ，

• The largest egg of human parasites

•Having a thin egg shell with a small

operculum.

•Inside the egg shell, there is an embryonic

cell and 20~40 yolk cells.
 Life cycle
1~2
月
Feces
Adult egg M. S. M.R. D. R. C.
Water
Man,pigs
Snail

Man
Adult M.C
Pig .
Plants
in water
 Important points
1. Where the adults live ?

2. The intermediate host ：

3. Infective stage ：

4. Modes of infection:
 Symptoms
The adults cause disease named
fasciolopiasis.

Abdominal pain, diarrhea, weakness,

emaciation, dystrophia,retarded growth,
etc.
Diagnosis
 Epidemiology
1. Distribution
• Tropic and subtropic area of Asia
• 18 provinces in China
• Very rare in Henan province
 2. Factors for endemic
• Sources of infection ： infected man and pig
• Water contamination with feces
• Snails and plants existence in water
• The plants used as fertilizer for raising pigs
• The habits of ingestion of raw plant or
drinking unboiled water
 Treatment and prevention

• Treat the patients: Praziquantel

• Not eat raw hydrophytes without
washing
• Not drink unboiled water
• Not use raw water plants as fertilizer of
pigs
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 Oral sucker
Ventral sucker
uterus
Intestine
ovary
Testes
Adults of F. buski
Adults of F. buski
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Egg of F. buski

Operculum

Embyonic cell

Yolk cells

Egg shell

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 水芹菜 菱角

浮萍 水浮莲

Water plants usually found in ChinaBack

The intermediate host of F. buski

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