Fasciolasis humana y animal en África, con enfásis en Egipto

2013

Fasciolid flukes cause fascioliasis, an helminthic disease of humans and livestock and which is transmitted by specific freshwater snails of the family Lymnaeidae, within a frame of transmission and epidemiology pronouncedly influenced by climate factors and environmental conditions. In Africa, fascioliasis is caused by the two species Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, giving rise to important economic losses in husbandry throughout. Research on human infection has focused on northern Maghreb countries and Egypt, whereas studies on the wide region southward from the Sahara have only been sporadic. The present Thesis includes the genetic characterisation of the lymnaeid species found in se…