TISSUE-DWELLING

FLUKES/ SHEEP LIVER

FLUKE

REPORTERS:
NAIMAH CANLAS
DANIELA QUINDAO
FASCIOLA HEPATICA

• Commonly known “sheep liver fluke”

• In sheep, the migratory phase of the
parasites produces severe parenchymal
disease.
• The parasite is called sheep liver fluke
and the disease is known as liver rot
HABITAT

• A parasite of herbivores (particularly sheep

and cattle) causing zoonosis.
• Human beings are occasionally affected.
• Live for 9 years in the bile ducts of the liver
of these animals.
 EPIDEMOLOGY

DISTRIBUTION
Cosmopolitan disease found in all sheep-
rearing and cattle-rearing areas.
Russia, Europe
Latin America countries (Peru, Argentina)
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Northern Thailand,
China, Japan and Australia.
Transmission
• Transmission occurs by the ingestion of
metacercaria encysted on aquatic
vegetation, such as watercress in salad
or contaminated water.
• In many areas of the world, animal
manure is used as primary fertilizer for
cultivation of watercress.
Life Cycle
• Fasciola Hepatica requires two hosts to
complete its life cycle;
• Definitive hosts: Herbivores like sheep, goat,
cattle and man.
• Intermediate hosts: Snails of the genus
Lymnae
PATHOGENESIS AND CLINICAL
SYNDROME

• Acute or invasive phase; Migration from intestine to

liver and traumatic and necrotic lesions in liver
parenchyma.
• Chronic or latent phase – asymptomatic, obstruction
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