First Report of Lymnaea columella Say, 1817 (Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae) Naturally Infected with Fasciola hepatica (Linnaeus,1758) (Trematoda: Digenea) in Argentina

We report the first evidence of natural infection of Lymnaea columella with Fasciola hepatica in Argentina. A sample of 601 snails was collected in May 2003 in northeastern Corrientes, a province bounded on the north by Paraguay, on the east by Brazil and on the southeast by Uruguay. Among 500 exa...

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Autores principales: Prepelitchi, Lucila, Kleiman, Florencia, Pietrokovsky, Silvia M., Moriena, Ricardo Antonio, Racioppi, Oscar, Álvarez, José Darío, Wisnivesky Colli, Cristina
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 2022
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Lymnaea columella
Fasciola hepatica infection
Argentina
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.unne.edu.ar/handle/123456789/49756
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RIUNNE - Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) de Universidad Nacional del Nordeste
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Sumario:We report the first evidence of natural infection of Lymnaea columella with Fasciola hepatica in Argentina. A sample of 601 snails was collected in May 2003 in northeastern Corrientes, a province bounded on the north by Paraguay, on the east by Brazil and on the southeast by Uruguay. Among 500 examined snails, 44 (8.8%) were exclusively infected with F. hepatica. Parasite identification was based on morphological features of cercariae from snails, and of eggs and adult flukes from Wistar rats. We discuss the events suggesting that an enzootic transmission cycle of F. hepatica has been recently established in northeastern Corrientes.

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